Op woensdag 17-02-2010 om 12:16 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Danny Piccirillo: > Thanks guys, if anybody has other good fundraising ideas, please post > them! > > > So far, there seem to be a few different ways to fundraise: > * Holding regular events where people can make small donations > * Does anybody have any creative ideas for events > (besides installfests) where this could be successful? > I'd like to organize a booth on the street in a > popular part of the city to showcase Ubuntu
We have booths at the regular computer sales fairs organized all over the country here ( http://www.dipro.be/benl/micro_mega_market in nl/fr). (We get a 50% discount for being a "non profit computer club", maybe because we attract some extra people by listing our presence on our site...) I also heard some locoteam(s?) have had a booth at a folk festival. (Something I've been considering before...) > * Buying something in bulk and selling (the Ubuntu Massachusetts > team did this with aluminum Ubuntu case badges) > * What else have people sold, or think might be good to > sell? T-shirts, mugs, stickers, keychains, mousemats, ... (We ordered stuff from the Canonical shop & resold it at FOSDEM with some profit.) Also: posters, localised CDs, locoteam t-shirts, ... ---- We also had a 1-weekend booth at a large (about 10000 visitors / day) commercial 9-day long fair in one city here, by being offered a "small" part of a large organisation's exposition space for 2 days. We didn't sell anything there, nor did we ask for any gifts, but just having a booth at that fair would have been financially impossible without their offer (even if ubuntu-be is maybe a "rich" locoteam compared to many others), so sometimes cooperation with companies or government institutions can help you get in places where you wouldn't be able to get otherwise. -- Jan Claeys -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
