In the interest of helping fundraising work push forward quickly and smoothly, we want to make two points as DebConf Chairs:
1. While we are very glad to see that local fundraising efforts for DebConf15 are starting already, we are worried that starting official fundraising team meetings now, without including past members, could be detrimental to a healthy long-term fundraising effort. We therefore want to accelerate re-formation of the DebConf fundraising team. We will recruit and document members of that team as soon as possible, using the approach agreed in the DebConf14 sessions. We will reach out to past members of the team, including previous local fundraisers, to form a new team, and canvass for a team lead. We hope that about a week from now, that team can formally start the fundraising effort. 2. We are very happy to see that people have new ideas to try in fundraising, and excited to see the great new brochure that has been prepared. We also agree that the brochure needs to go out soon. We understand that some people are still unhappy about some of the new ideas, but we don't think that there is a need to get final agreement from the whole DebConf team at this time on every point that has been contentious, as long as a few of the specific promises are made a little vaguer. We will discuss a small diff for that later today -- we don't intend to *prevent* any of the current ideas, just to avoid firm commitments that go beyond what the overall team has yet been able to agree on. Again, this is because we don't want to jeopardise the current effort to re-form DebConf subteams by presenting people who should be in those teams with faits accomplis which may make them feel excluded from decision-making. Thank you to everyone working on fundraising, and on all other DebConf topics! Moray, Tincho and Tassia. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
