also sprach Gergely Nagy <lists@madhouse-project.org> [2015-03-16 12:28 +0100]:
> I think fundraisers can be great, for specific non-recurring
> tasks, or as an additional source of funding for significantly
> larger ones, which would be very hard to fund otherwise.
Ftr, I was talking about regular fundraising, not individual
fundraisers. I just didn't want to call it marketing & sales. ;)
But judging from:
> In my opinion, if a recurring project is successful, and we keep
> doing it year after year, then we should try our best to minimise
> the amount of fundraising required.
I think you picked up on this.
> I have not followed Debian and Debian-related fundraising efforts
> recently, but if we have not tried alternative ways of running
> one, perhaps we should.
See -project right now, partners programme for the latest
incarnation. It's not the first time. This has been tried for
decades.
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