Re: [tdf-discuss] Ways to collect Money for Attendance at Conferences / Hackfests etc.
Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke wrote on 2012-02-06 20:25: I came in a discussion with a core member of another OpenSource community (Plone) across the topic of collecting money for members that want to attend at a Conference or a Sprint (we call that Hackfest) and give there a presentation or work with others on a topic. She told me that the member runs a ChipIn then and regularly get the needed travel expenses. thanks a lot for this proposal! Indeed, I plan to run another round of fundraising after the foundation has been incorporated, with naming specific donation goals: travel funding, infrastructure, buildbots, merchandise etc. From a tax perspective, it looks as if it should be no problem, since funds are transferred to PayPal afterwards. Do you know if the ChipIn take some fee from the incoming donations, or if they are passed on 1:1? Apart from that - what would be the real benefit of using ChipIn, compared to e.g. letting people directly donate to our PayPal and bank account, with a progress meter shown on the page? ChipIn seems to automatically adjust the progress meter, while we would have to do it manually - but besides, any other advantages? Florian -- Florian Effenberger Chairman of the Board at The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] Ways to collect Money for Attendance at Conferences / Hackfests etc.
Hi all, Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 20:25:42 schrieb Andreas Mantke: > Hi all, > > I came in a discussion with a core member of another OpenSource community > (Plone) across the topic of collecting money for members that want to > attend at a Conference or a Sprint (we call that Hackfest) and give there > a presentation or work with others on a topic. She told me that the member > runs a ChipIn then and regularly get the needed travel expenses. > > Yesterday I read about such a sucessfull chipin. A member want to attend > the Plone conference in San Francisco and give a presentation: > http://www.martinaspeli.net/articles/plone-the-generous-community > and the site to collect money for this travel: > http://frapell.chipin.com/go-to-ploneconf > > You could read about the idea and conditions at: > http://frapell.chipin.com/go-to-ploneconf > sorry: wrong URL: use this: http://chipin.com > Maybe this could be a way to get more member / contributors from outside > Europe to our next conference and give a presentation there or participate > in the event (or if Europeans want to participate in an event or > LibreOffice conference / Hackfest outside Europe). > > Opinions? > > Regards, > Andreas -- ## Developer LibreOffice ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows ## http://LibreOffice.org ## Support the Document Foundation (http://documentfoundation.org) ## Meine Seite: http://www.amantke.de -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Ways to collect Money for Attendance at Conferences / Hackfests etc.
Hi all, I came in a discussion with a core member of another OpenSource community (Plone) across the topic of collecting money for members that want to attend at a Conference or a Sprint (we call that Hackfest) and give there a presentation or work with others on a topic. She told me that the member runs a ChipIn then and regularly get the needed travel expenses. Yesterday I read about such a sucessfull chipin. A member want to attend the Plone conference in San Francisco and give a presentation: http://www.martinaspeli.net/articles/plone-the-generous-community and the site to collect money for this travel: http://frapell.chipin.com/go-to-ploneconf You could read about the idea and conditions at: http://frapell.chipin.com/go-to-ploneconf Maybe this could be a way to get more member / contributors from outside Europe to our next conference and give a presentation there or participate in the event (or if Europeans want to participate in an event or LibreOffice conference / Hackfest outside Europe). Opinions? Regards, Andreas -- ## Developer LibreOffice ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows ## http://LibreOffice.org ## Support the Document Foundation (http://documentfoundation.org) ## Meine Seite: http://www.amantke.de -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
