Hi, I feel we are spending too much time here discussion some issues that are ultimately linked to money. Sadly, this happens every year. We are early in the organization of DC13 and we are well on time to find new ways of getting money.
We are been relying mostly in two ways of finding money: - sponsors - corporate attendees (not a big amount) Back when DebConf10, we even sent a press release asking for donations: http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100519 Some people donated after this, but we didn't exactly track the donations and we didn't have any proper way of thank you back. So this leads to the first possibility: utilize crowdfunding to fund DebConf. E.g. we can calculate how much money is to sponsor food and accommodation to say 15, 30, 45 and 60 unamed contributors and try to raise that incrementally. This would take some time to do and also some money depending on what we give back. But I think it is worth considering. Usually the crowdfunding places take a part of the money as fee, but maybe we could negotiate with them sponsoring us that amount. I won't say anything about what could be given as reward because it is not something important to discuss at this point. I want to know what people think about this idea. Other idea could be use some of the places where you can put t-shirts and other similar tokens like mugs to sell. (There are some places who sell Debian t-shirts and promise to see part of the money to Debian, but again we don't track this). We do not need to endorse any place over the others, just be transparent about how much money Debian get and check if Debian really gets this money. I don't think this would have a huge margin, but it doesn't sound too much time consuming after the initial setup given the company does the shipping and so on. Ana _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
