[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Hey

Le 2010-11-01 14:27, Alexandro Colorado a écrit :

> Well that is the key, donations (IMHO) dont have a specified target.
> You can your same argument about donating $100 specifically for the
> data pilot in Calc. Unless he specifically mentions it on his paypal
> donation notes, it would be very difficult to know what was the $100
> for or how exactly show and proof that the money was used for that.
>
> In my experience I haven't recieved any notes on the use of their 5
> /25 bucks. Even large donations are vagely specified the target. I
> remember an organization donated $500 because we won a price. They
> only wanted some letter from the community that we won. But usually
> that is how far it has gone about strings attached to the donation.
>
> Another thing is to update their group mission to not focus on OOo
> exclusively, whcih many already did for matters related to other
> related things like ODF. Many Document Freedom Day events, they use
> their 'OOo budget' to promote ODF in their country.

I think that it would matter to donors if they were supporters of the 
OOo and all of a sudden their donations were now used to support 
TDF/LibO. This could be a problem.

Marc



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