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Re: Q to all candidates: future of Debian finances



Hi Lucas,

Em 09/04/2025 03:59, Lucas Nussbaum escreveu:
Hi,

I've been wondering for a long time if our fundraising strategy is
optimal.

We are mainly fundraising in the context of DebConf. It is useful when
fundraising to be explicit about a specific goal (organizing a
conference), but it also means that the convincing work needs to be done
every year.

Maybe we should also have a plan to raise funds directly for Debian (not
specifically for DebConf). It might provide a path to convince
organizations to allocate a yearly budget to Debian, and turn an opt-in
scheme (per-DebConf sponsoring) to an opt-out scheme (annual Debian
contribution, that continues by default every year). In large
organizations, it might be easier to do the convincing work once and
then get that sponsorship written in recurring yearly expenses.

Benefits of sponsoring Debian could include "be mentioned as a Debian
sponsor at official Debian events, next to event-specific sponsors".

An important challenge with such a setup would be to build a team
responsible for organizing that fundraising. It looks like, currently,
we push that responsibility to the DebConf team (with the
motivation/hammer that if they don't do well at fundraising, it directly
limits their ability to organize a nice DebConf).

Some days ago I sent a proposal to organize a crowdfunding campaign for regular people donate to Debian.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2025/04/msg00062.html

I known there is a page "How to donate to the Debian Project" but we need to call attention to that.

Best regards,

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Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls)
Belo Horizonte - Brasil
Debian Developer
Site: http://phls.com.br
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