Re: [Debconf-team] Alternative ways of raising money
Hi,
Consider targeting of the source: while individuals may not donate a
huge amount, perhaps small businesses would make also make (bigger)
crowdfunding donations.
We have lots of merchandising we have done in the past: umbrellas,
swiss army knives (good for this year!), etc. Logistics of shipping
will take a _lot_ of work, but if the price is 100+ € per item, it
could be worth it: just get a few people in a room at debconf and do
all the shipping. We would need a dedicated team to manage it,
though. Of course: people can just get these at-cost during the
normal merchandising procedures, but crowdfunding is all about
psychology. Also, we would do a much broader marketing campaign with
the crwdfunding thing.
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:41:15AM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> Does somebody else have any other ideas besides the crowdfunding and the
> t-shirt ideas?
Another random idea: auctions of silly/trivial items:
- Rare shirt from DebConfN. (I would donate DC9+DC10 shirts to this,
in fact, this is how I got the idea).
- $famous_person's DebConfN shirt (if someone is willing to part with
it)
- Dinner with DPL (but being an open project, auctioning off a
leader's time is sort of questionable. Anyone can talk to our
leader and could probably get a dinner with em.)
- Seated at leader's / debconf team's table at conference dinner
- FTPmaster's socks (thanks anonymous source)
- Probably many more.
There's some overlap with the above and crowdfunding "rewards" from
above. I'm not sure which would be better, and we could probably do
both, but auctions can be a _lot_ more work. And, trading project
privileges for money is a big "?", since it's basically purposely
making things scarce to raise money.
Just some random ideas,
- Richard
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