Hi, Consider targeting of the source: while individuals may not donate a huge amount, perhaps small businesses would make also make (bigger) crowdfunding donations.
We have lots of merchandising we have done in the past: umbrellas, swiss army knives (good for this year!), etc. Logistics of shipping will take a _lot_ of work, but if the price is 100+ € per item, it could be worth it: just get a few people in a room at debconf and do all the shipping. We would need a dedicated team to manage it, though. Of course: people can just get these at-cost during the normal merchandising procedures, but crowdfunding is all about psychology. Also, we would do a much broader marketing campaign with the crwdfunding thing. On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:41:15AM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Does somebody else have any other ideas besides the crowdfunding and the > t-shirt ideas? Another random idea: auctions of silly/trivial items: - Rare shirt from DebConfN. (I would donate DC9+DC10 shirts to this, in fact, this is how I got the idea). - $famous_person's DebConfN shirt (if someone is willing to part with it) - Dinner with DPL (but being an open project, auctioning off a leader's time is sort of questionable. Anyone can talk to our leader and could probably get a dinner with em.) - Seated at leader's / debconf team's table at conference dinner - FTPmaster's socks (thanks anonymous source) - Probably many more. There's some overlap with the above and crowdfunding "rewards" from above. I'm not sure which would be better, and we could probably do both, but auctions can be a _lot_ more work. And, trading project privileges for money is a big "?", since it's basically purposely making things scarce to raise money. Just some random ideas, - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - pyke: up 128 days, 2:54 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
