No need to respond to this: just ideas if they're not already covered. I've just made my donation.
For what it's worth - you can see the numbers on wikimedia's donations, from 2009. I wouldn't discount the $10 user base. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Staeiou/Protocol [see the graphs on fundraising below]. Other idea if not already taken care of - You could also get non-coding contributors to handle the CD & stickers etc, if you don't already have that happening. Then the fundraising arm wouldn't take away from coding time. Thanks Jason On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org>wrote: > > > Anyone want to suggest we hold a bake sale? > > > > I will take this opportunity to suggest a probably bad idea but one > > that crossed my mind nonetheless. > > > > I have not actively kept up with this list so forgive me if this can't > > be done, or isn't in line with the community's values, but what about > > doing a Kickstarter campaign for each OpenBSD release? Varying levels > > of support could get the different levels of swag that are already > > distributed: CD/DVD distributions, t-shirts, stickers, etc... > > The problem with this model is that once again > - we are the ones who need to supply more; > - we need to promising the goods; > - we are the ones who need to invest; > - we are supposed to do the extra work; > - we are supposed to take time away from coding. > > Don't we do enough? > > Regarding the swag. The entire OpenBSD project now probably gets 1/4 > of revenue out of CD, tshirt sales, but in this model we'd have to > give much of that out to people who contribute, and it will probably > be less. > > Remember to add shipping, now paid on this end, instead of by the buyer. > > > One could also just contribute $10-$20 to be a supporter, and receive > > nothing material. > > $20? To break even with the above issues, call it $100 minimum. Does > it still work? Is there evidence? > > And once this turn process on, if it doesn't work, are we even more dead > in the water? > > > Nodejitsu recently raised $256k with their Scalenpm campaign. I would > > imagine there are enough people out there who care about OpenBSD too > > whereby a significant amount of money could be raised. > > Would that work every year? > > I doubt mindshare of this sort works repeatedly.
