Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/20/2019 11:01 AM, Maximilian Michels wrote: > Does the ASF publish the amount of individual/corporate donations it > receives? Yes.  As a 501(c)(3), this information is public information.  You can likely get it from our annual reports as well as from our tax returns through Guidestar. See

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-20 Thread Maximilian Michels
Hi Sharan, It was nice meeting you. Indeed, FOSDEM is huge and we are only a part of the community. You are right, the broad spectrum of the Apache projects makes them suitable for all kinds of devrooms, which makes having a dedicated devroom hard. Perhaps something like a workshop on "The A

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-20 Thread Maximilian Michels
Thanks Bertrand, I should have used my favorite search engine to look that up. Does the ASF publish the amount of individual/corporate donations it receives? The page looks great. I think what would increase the likelihood of donations is to have fund raising goals. Wikipedia does that really

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-19 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi Max It was good to meet you and I'm glad that you enjoyed being there and all that booth activity! FOSDEM is a major event and getting a devroom there can be difficult. I think we did an application for one last year and were turned down so we are not guaranteed to get room or even a booth

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-19 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:59 AM Maximilian Michels wrote: > ...I think it would be worthwhile to think > about a general strategy for asking for donations from individuals, > which I believe the ASF does not do at the moment... Maybe this needs to be better advertised but we do accept indiv

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-19 Thread Maximilian Michels
Thank you for the summary Sharan! It was my first time behind the ASF stand. It was nice to talk to so many users and also interesting to see how many people do not know what the ASF is. I'm unsure whether asking for donations directly at the stand is an effective way to get donations. I think

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-06 Thread Myrle Krantz
Also: 3 different people talked to me about bringing their projects to the incubator! Best Regards, Myrle On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 4:07 PM Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 2/6/19 7:46 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > > On 2/6/19 1:43 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: > >> Hi, Sharan; > >> Great summary! I am espe

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-06 Thread Rich Bowen
On 2/6/19 7:46 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > On 2/6/19 1:43 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: >> Hi, Sharan; >>     Great summary! I am especially delighted to see the fresh take on >> individual giving. I think that's a super cool idea. An idea for >> future events: we could provide a QR code that leads to

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-06 Thread Griselda Cuevas
Thank you so much for the update Sharan, and to everyone who made this possible. It was a pleasure to meet in person so many of the names I see in the mailing list. +1 to the idea of having a PayPal account and a card reader. +1 to the idea of the live mailing list subscription. On Wed, Feb 6,

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-06 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2/6/19 1:43 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: Hi, Sharan; Great summary! I am especially delighted to see the fresh take on individual giving. I think that's a super cool idea. An idea for future events: we could provide a QR code that leads to donate.a.o or, as Kevin mentioned, physical card s

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-06 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
Hi, Sharan; Great summary! I am especially delighted to see the fresh take on individual giving. I think that's a super cool idea. An idea for future events: we could provide a QR code that leads to donate.a.o or, as Kevin mentioned, physical card swipe capability on site. The physical device

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-06 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Thank you Sharan for the report, and all who helped to make this possible Heartily Jacques Le 05/02/2019 à 21:21, Sharan Foga a écrit : Hi Everyone Last weekend FOSDEM was held in Brussels so wanted to post a quick update. FOSDEM weather is generally quite predictable (read that as bad!) and

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-05 Thread Swapnil M Mane
Great, thank you for the update Sharan and everyone who made it possible!! :-) - Best Regards, Swapnil M Mane, http://ofbiz.apache.org/ On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 1:51 AM Sharan Foga wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Last weekend FOSDEM was held in Brussels so wanted to post a quick update. > > FOSDEM weat

Re: FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-05 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Awesome! Re: buy us a coffee, there is some discussion here about a paypal here reader and using credit cards: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f5dce02145e0e4b96faca72a12b29fe39bf098ef204c8b912601e5ba@%3Cfundraising.apache.org%3E On 2/5/2019 3:21 PM, Sharan Foga wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Last

FOSDEM 2019 Update

2019-02-05 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi Everyone Last weekend FOSDEM was held in Brussels so wanted to post a quick update. FOSDEM weather is generally quite predictable (read that as bad!) and this time as well as rain, it snowed! Yet even with the bad weather, thousands of people made the effort to attend. Daniel flew in wit