Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Neil McGovern dijo [Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:42:14PM +]: On the specific case, I remember when I wound up the accounts for DebConf 7 that the surplus was earmarked as a donation to DebConf 8. More specifically, there was a Debian seed fund of 10k USD to help with the cash flow and then 8k

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-28 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Gunnar, On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:55:35PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: So, back to the case: What's your take on this issue? How much can one part of the Debian universe of subprojects expect the money it generated be available for its future? Should we set a clear number? On the specific

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-25 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Ana! On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:21:20AM +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: DebConf is one of the biggest expenses of Debian, every year we look for sponsorship and we had (and have) sponsors who were sponsoring DebConf as a way of giving their annual donation to Debian and not necessarily

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: 1) we should have a partners program that would allow us to track our recurring sponsors, and ask them to do their yearly donation to *Debian* (not DebConf). We already do have a partners program, some of the usual DebConf sponsors don't

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/03/14 at 14:04 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: 1) we should have a partners program that would allow us to track our recurring sponsors, and ask them to do their yearly donation to *Debian* (not DebConf). We already do have a

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-22 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Lucas Nussbaum: Sure, but there would be quite a lot of work to do to grow it to something such as https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors, to which I pointed to previously. Why not ask the FreeBSD folks whether they'd be willing to share their code? (Yes, I do know that a

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 21:56 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Why not ask the FreeBSD folks whether they'd be willing to share their code? (Yes, I do know that a working donation system requires more than a web site.) I think we would want a system to export from ledger and import to

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Gunnar, On 20/03/14 at 12:55 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Ana Guerrero Lopez dijo [Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:21:20AM +0100]: * Fundraising DebConf is one of the biggest expenses of Debian, every year we look for sponsorship and we had (and have) sponsors who were sponsoring DebConf as a

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
[ adding a Cc: to debconf-team ] Lucas Nussbaum dijo [Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:15:02PM +0100]: I think I already answered this at least partially in https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/03/msg00192.html, so I will give some more details, specifically for the DebConf case. Ideally, I

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 21:53 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: How so? I have the feeling that all the relevant people are on the list? I get the feeling that Martin and Kai from the Press Team aren't subscribed, unsure though. Maybe there's too much things going out of band without feedback to

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Francesca Ciceri wrote: Lack of coordination among the different sources: that's a first problem, indeed. Debian-publicity (the ML) should act as a node for all the publicity/promoting people in Debian,

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ana Guerrero Lopez dijo [Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:21:20AM +0100]: * Fundraising DebConf is one of the biggest expenses of Debian, every year we look for sponsorship and we had (and have) sponsors who were sponsoring DebConf as a way of giving their annual donation to Debian and not

two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-19 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Hi, Two unrelated questions. Feel free to reply in separate emails. * Fundraising DebConf is one of the biggest expenses of Debian, every year we look for sponsorship and we had (and have) sponsors who were sponsoring DebConf as a way of giving their annual donation to Debian and not

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Ana! On 19/03/14 at 10:21 +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: Hi, Two unrelated questions. Feel free to reply in separate emails. * Fundraising DebConf is one of the biggest expenses of Debian, every year we look for sponsorship and we had (and have) sponsors who were sponsoring

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-19 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 05:59:43PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi Ana! On 19/03/14 at 10:21 +0100, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: * Publicizing Debian We have several officials ways of publicizing stuff in Debian: press releases, identi.ca, bits.d.o and the DPN. We also have the bits

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Francesca, On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Francesca Ciceri wrote: Lack of coordination among the different sources: that's a first problem, indeed. Debian-publicity (the ML) should act as a node for all the publicity/promoting people in Debian, but it doesn't. How so? I have the feeling that all