Perhaps it's time to slightly increase the cost of CD purchases. I know
it's not a favorite thing to do, but necessary for sustainability.
On 01/14/2014 07:30 PM, Jason Koch wrote:
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.
