Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
El lun, 08-02-2010 a las 16:15 -0700, Stormy Peters escribió: I think it's an excellent offer and I definitely plan on saying thanks. The question is, do we want to promote? I think we should ... A badge? Like the FoG thing. We announce it together with some buttons and ask people to blog it. Maybe associate this with this idea: all it takes to help gnome is to text or text gnome some help. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
We got this offer today. I did a bit of research and XIPWIRE seem to be a startup that just launched so there's not a lot of history to check out. They have gotten a lot of good press from the local Philadelphia news[1]. The difference between this and the donation texts that most people are familiar with is that you have to login to the XIPWIRE website at least once to set up your account and connect it to a bank account or credit card. It doesn't pull from your cell phone bill. So regardless of what we do here, I think we should continue to pursue the other text options we have. Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. Stormy P.S. I removed Sharif's signature contact info as I'm forwarding to a public list. [1] http://technicallyphilly.com/2010/01/06/shop-talk-xipwire-mobile-payment-platform-lets-you-text-cash -- Forwarded message -- From: Sharif J. Alexandre Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:13 PM Subject: Fundraising / Donations To: fundrais...@gnome.org Hi, I'm with XIPWIRE, a Mobile Payment startup based in Philadelphia, and wanted to reach out regarding fundraising and our offering to the Open Source community. As I'm sure you're aware the recent crisis in Haiti has put a spotlight on text pledges and the opportunity it represents for organizations to quickly and easily solicit donations for their respective causes. Since I'm an avid supporter of Open Source generally and your work in particular, and as my personal way of saying Thank You to the thousands of developers and supporters who have indirectly made XIPWIRE possible, I'm offering the Text Pledging functionality of XIPWIRE completely free of charge. I've created an oss campaign where people can simply text oss to 56624 (XIPWIRE's commercial shortcode number) to pledge a default amount of $10 to one of the following organizations: - *apache* - Apache Software Foundation - *eff* - Electronic Frontier Foundation - *fsf* - Free Software Foundation - *gnome* - GNOME Foundation - *kde* - KDE e.V. - *linux* - Linux Foundation More details about the campaign can be found at: https://xipwire.com/pledges/oss As I mentioned, we are waiving all of our fees so each organization will receive 100% of the funds directed to it. Since GNOME Foundation is one of the foundations listed, I wanted to reach out in advance of our announcement of this campaign to solicit any feedback or comments you might have. It is my sincere hope that the money generated through this program will continue to fund the excellent work you have done over the years. Regards, Sharif -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. It sounds like there's not much being aked in return - it's up to us whether we promote the service or not :) At the very leats, it sounds like something to say thank you for. I'm all for the perfect not being the enemy of the good. If there are other options which might be more convenient which arrive later, we can always change then. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
I think it's an excellent offer and I definitely plan on saying thanks. The question is, do we want to promote? I think we should ... Stormy On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. It sounds like there's not much being aked in return - it's up to us whether we promote the service or not :) At the very leats, it sounds like something to say thank you for. I'm all for the perfect not being the enemy of the good. If there are other options which might be more convenient which arrive later, we can always change then. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
Sounds good. They run Red Hat based server with Apache. Good stuff (attach). Best of luck, NM On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 15:40 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: We got this offer today. I did a bit of research and XIPWIRE seem to be a startup that just launched so there's not a lot of history to check out. They have gotten a lot of good press from the local Philadelphia news[1]. The difference between this and the donation texts that most people are familiar with is that you have to login to the XIPWIRE website at least once to set up your account and connect it to a bank account or credit card. It doesn't pull from your cell phone bill. So regardless of what we do here, I think we should continue to pursue the other text options we have. Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. Stormy P.S. I removed Sharif's signature contact info as I'm forwarding to a public list. [1] http://technicallyphilly.com/2010/01/06/shop-talk-xipwire-mobile-payment-platform-lets-you-text-cash -- Forwarded message -- From: Sharif J. Alexandre Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:13 PM Subject: Fundraising / Donations To: fundrais...@gnome.org Hi, I'm with XIPWIRE, a Mobile Payment startup based in Philadelphia, and wanted to reach out regarding fundraising and our offering to the Open Source community. As I'm sure you're aware the recent crisis in Haiti has put a spotlight on text pledges and the opportunity it represents for organizations to quickly and easily solicit donations for their respective causes. Since I'm an avid supporter of Open Source generally and your work in particular, and as my personal way of saying Thank You to the thousands of developers and supporters who have indirectly made XIPWIRE possible, I'm offering the Text Pledging functionality of XIPWIRE completely free of charge. I've created an oss campaign where people can simply text oss to 56624 (XIPWIRE's commercial shortcode number) to pledge a default amount of $10 to one of the following organizations: * apache - Apache Software Foundation * eff - Electronic Frontier Foundation * fsf - Free Software Foundation * gnome - GNOME Foundation * kde - KDE e.V. * linux - Linux Foundation More details about the campaign can be found at: https://xipwire.com/pledges/oss As I mentioned, we are waiving all of our fees so each organization will receive 100% of the funds directed to it. Since GNOME Foundation is one of the foundations listed, I wanted to reach out in advance of our announcement of this campaign to solicit any feedback or comments you might have. It is my sincere hope that the money generated through this program will continue to fund the excellent work you have done over the years. Regards, Sharif attachment: xipwire.png-- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Fwd: Fundraising / Donations
Stormy, Keep in mind this, when you make ur decision: https://xipwire.com/company/privacy my 2 cents. NM On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 16:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: I think it's an excellent offer and I definitely plan on saying thanks. The question is, do we want to promote? I think we should ... Stormy On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: Thoughts? Should we help market this? We'd be asking for GNOME donations and we'd also be encouraging people to set up XIPWIRE accounts. It sounds like there's not much being aked in return - it's up to us whether we promote the service or not :) At the very leats, it sounds like something to say thank you for. I'm all for the perfect not being the enemy of the good. If there are other options which might be more convenient which arrive later, we can always change then. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
