Re: [libreoffice-marketing] How to get "donated" money the TDF and Marketers?

On 09/01/2011 08:04 AM, Paulo de Souza Lima wrote:
> Hello. =)
>
> 2011/9/1 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com
> > This was brought up a few months ago, and I do not remember the answers.
> >
> > For those who will be selling copies of their distribution DVDs, or coffee
> > mugs, tee-shirts, etc., there could be a listed line stating something like
> > the following: "A portion of this purchase is donated to The Documentation
> > Foundation and Marketing teams to help the pay for the cost running their
> > servers and the marketing items for the technology shows."  Then there would
> > be something saying about TDF/LibreOffice people and the marketers are all
> > volunteers, and would benefit from donated funds to offset the cost of the
> > marketing materials.
> >
> > So the question is, how do people who sell items, that are LO based, get
> > the donations to TDF and/or get it into the hands of the marketing people to
> > "help offset the cost of doing business"?
> >
> > Now that there is LibreOffice documentation for all the modules [except for
> > Base]  It may be the time to start looking into the process to sell the
> > distribution DVDs [NA-DVD and others], plus any mugs, shirts, hats, etc.,
> > etc., that some individual or group will be offering.  I think I remember
> > seeing a "donation" statement on Drew's "test" merchandising page,  Plus, I
> > remember seeing it somewhere else.  So, if Drew, and others, collect
> > donations, where does it go and who gets it?
> >
> >
> > NOTE:  I do know that TDF/LO is in the process of chartering [making sure
> > it is done completely and correctly for all the various government
> > regulations involved], so there may not be an "official" TDF/LO banking
> > account in their name till that is done.
> I'd like to include some other issues to this thread:
>
> 1 - Where/When/How will the accounting on this financial resources be
> publicly displayed, including donations made via TDF website? (This question
> was made by an young man who was watching my last lecture about LibreOffice)
> 2 - Most of people who really contribute to LibreOffice are willing to
> participate of great events like FISL, CONSEGI, Campus Party, and others
> (just to say some local events) and have no money to do it. Why can't they
> support their costs with such events obtaining resources from LibreOffice
> stuff they could sell?
> 3 - What will be the criteria to support local community representatives
> (i.e. the local marketing teams, events organization, marketing stuff, books
> printing, etc.) with part of those resources? Or are those resources only to
> support international activities or TDF (the organization) activities?
> 4 - Will money contributors have some kind of advantage than those who don't
> contribute with money? What should it be? How should it be?
>
> My questions are only to clarify some issues that certainly will arise in
> the near future. At least one of them has just arose in my last lecture and
> I couldn't answer to it objectively because I had no information on that.
>
> Cheers.
Thanks for adding this.
For me, getting the money to the "proper" people/group/marketers was 
what I was wondering about.

All the processes, accountability, and such on TDF/LO and the Marketing 
side of the "equation" is out of my hands, but need to be defined.  It 
is hard to do much "officially" when TDF/LO is still in the "Chartering" 
process, and that is a really complex process.  [I know how it is in New 
York State, USA, and it must be at least as bad in the EU]


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