Hi there! On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:13:22 +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > I feel we are spending too much time here discussion some issues > that are ultimately linked to money. Sadly, this happens every year. > We are early in the organization of DC13 and we are well on time > to find new ways of getting money. I fully agree on the above, thank you for spotting it again. > Back when DebConf10, we even sent a press release asking for donations: > http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100519 > Some people donated after this, but we didn't exactly track the donations > and we didn't have any proper way of thank you back. I did not remember that, thank you very much! > Usually the crowdfunding places take a part of the money as fee, but > maybe we could negotiate with them sponsoring us that amount. I am not used to crowdfunding, but it sounds doable. > Other idea could be use some of the places where you can put t-shirts > and other similar tokens like mugs to sell. (There are some places who sell > Debian t-shirts and promise to see part of the money to Debian, but again > we don't track this). The above is not completely true: since a while, the Debian Auditors (Bcc:ed), and in some cases the Debian Events Team as well, are trying to track exactly this kind of "places". > We do not need to endorse any place over the others, just be transparent > about how much money Debian get and check if Debian really gets this money. > I don't think this would have a huge margin, but it doesn't sound too much > time consuming after the initial setup given the company does the shipping > and so on. IMHO if one of this "place" would sponsor one single attendee would already be a double win: for the place because it gets more visibility and for DebConf because we have one less attendee to take care of. So it is worth it anyway. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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