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

Hello Paulo,

Le Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:04:51 -0300,
Paulo de Souza Lima <paulo.s.lima@varekai.org> a écrit :

> 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) 

If you mean the budget, we need to have the foundation approved.
Otherwise it's FroDev (in Germany) and I'm sure their accounting is
checkable. 

> 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?

I think this would lead to quite a lot of issues. 

> 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? 

So that is a real question, we have a session about this in Paris and
we need to make real decisions together with the NGOs working with us. 


> 4 - Will money contributors have
> some kind of advantage than those who don't contribute with money?

No, never ever. :-)

best,
Charles. 


> 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.



-- 
Charles-H. Schulz
Membre du Comité exécutif
The Document Foundation.

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