On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:09:52PM +0200, Newsbite wrote: > I suggested then, that it might be a good idea to seek out additional > sponsors, be it non-profit organisations, or even commercial > compagnies.
I have investigated various non-profs that might give us grants - however it never really went anywhere. > In return, we could set up modest banners on the site (I > mean the freenet site on the www, NOT anything on freenet itself) or > we could make a 'sponsor page' with links, or little banners, or a > combination of both, depending on the level of sponsoring. This may violate the SourceForge terms of service, they prohibit advertising - in fact, they even prohibit the solicitation of donations but on my request they made an exception for us. > In any case, if some sort of moderator for the job would be needed, > I'm volunteering, and if Pr0n-compagnies sponsoring would be deemed > 'unproper', so be it. But we can all agree that organisations like the > EFF would be prime candidates, and I think there is a definite > potential for free-speech and IT/tech organisations and compagnies. > Maybe enough for a second developer, who knows? These companies are welcome to sponsor Freenet, but I don't think that they should expect free advertising in return - we are not an advertising service. If they like the project, then their reward should be that the project progresses faster thanks to their donation. > If anyone (meaning; those that have any say in the matter ;-) is > interested, I'm willing to take this job of sponsor-seeking&handling > on me, because I'm fully aware that it's more of a manager issue then > a developers'one. (which was another remark made; that developers > don't have time for such a thing). Since I'm part-time manager and > part-time IT free-lance writer, I have no problem with it. Certainly I think there is merit in applying for grants from foundations and such like - but I don't think we should be offering advertising on the website as a reward, donating to Freenet should be its own reward. > So, that was basically it. I have a bit more detailed idea about the > how and what, but I think that's better discussed more directly, > instead of here. Well, I think that in-theory a more aggressive fundraising effort focusing on corporations (for- and non- profit) would be very worthwhile. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Weblog http://slashdot.org/~sanity/journal _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
