Hi,
I read today that there are some financial troubles
I have few question and ideas how to help out to collect some money for
OpenBSD
1. Myself I would buy as many as possible CDROM sets of OpenBSD 5.4 for
US $500 to distribute them for as low as possible price locally
2. If there some problems with payments it would be an idea to open an
account in Switzerland
or does OpenBSD already have a bank account in Switzerland ?
can someone present this idea to Theo ?
<Obilan> You could just donate
<ironm> Obilan, sure I can donate .. but it is what would spread OpenBSD
and make it more popular
<ironm> and I am myself not able to help with enough money
<ironm> 2. If there some problems with payments it would be an idea to
open an account in Switzerland
<ironm> or does OpenBSD already have a bank account in Switzerland ?
<cthuluh> if you want to collecte funds, just do it
<ironm> It is rather difficult to collect funds without original CD-set
<ironm> cthuluh, the point is that for example in Switzerland it is
difficult to easily buy the OpenBSD 5.4 CD-set
<ironm> and at the moment it costs like 60 CHF
<ironm> my idea is just to import at once as much as possible to
minimize shipment costs and some custom charges (including 8% VAT) and
distribute it locally for a price below 25 or 30 CHF (swiss francs)
<ironm> from my point of view a price of 20, 25 maybe 30 Swiss Francs
can be accepted here locally
<ironm> If I had easy possibility to buy openBSD locally I would buy it
probably every time when I would know that all the money lands an the
account of OpenBSD
<klarrt3> since it's free can't you just burn some CD:s, sell them, and
donate the money back
<ironm> klarrt3, it doesn't make sense in my opinion
<ironm> only originally pressed CD media make sense
<klarrt3> it's a nice thought though, getting money for obsd
<zenlunatic> who are you going to sell them to?
<ironm> zenlunatic, everywhere .. Universities, IT people in Swiss banks
etc
<mahomet> i'm throwing some money towards OpenBSD Foundation. I use
FreeBSD myself but it'd be tragic if OpenBSD were to disappear
I hope that it is the proper mailings list. Thank you in advance for
feedback and new ideas.
Kind regards, Mark
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