On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 04/04/2013 04:29 PM, schrieb Raphael Bircher: > > Am 04.04.13 14:22, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> in relation to our budget planning I asked myself if OpenOffice has any >>> impact on the donations to the ASF? Well I don't know and we can >>> probably figure this out but the question is what can we do ti collect >>> more donations and use our brand more effective. >>> >>> When I look on our main website I found a tiny donation link in the >>> footer only. From my point of view this is not good enough and we should >>> think how we can improve it. >>> >>> I can think of a much more prominent and more visible donation link or >>> whatever to make clear that OpenOffice will still benefit from donations >>> to the ASF. We have more IT requirements than other ASF projects, we >>> generate more network traffic, etc. and all this cost money. >>> >>> Furthermore I can think of a blog post to promote this in some way and >>> do a public call for donation. We should of course do this more often >>> with any public announcement. >>> >>> And opinions or further ideas how we can improve this? It shouldn't be a >>> big problem for us to collect the money we need. >>> >> I disagree. Yes, we can help with foundings for ASF, but please do this >> on ASF Level. Founding money is not the task of a ASF project, It's the >> task for the foundation. It would be nice, if sameone from our project >> work with the foundrising team from ASF. I personaly would also welcome >> if the fundrising team use OOo to generate monay. But for my point of >> view it's not a topic we (as Apache OpenOffice) project has to care about. >> >> So do this on Foundation level and not here. With other words: "Nice >> idea, wrong place." Just my option. >> > > Of course it's not our task to do/handle/manage the donations for the ASF. > But how I understood Juergen's proposal this is not the case here. > > But we are profiting of these donations. So, I don't see any problems to > support to increase them and to ask our users/contributors/friends to give > some dollars/euros/... to the ASF. > > It's just a question of "what can we do to *help* the ASF as long as it's > not a full time job". > > That's a good way to think of it. We" (AOO) don't run ApacheCon either, but when registration gets close we're happy to send a note to our users list and even put a button on our website to help drive greater attendance. If there is a fundraising drive I'm sure we can find a way to help in similar way. -Rob > Marcus > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
