On Sat, 2016-08-06 at 20:05 +0200, x...@freenetproject.org wrote: > (I don't have the time to reply to the whole thing just yet, but > there is > something important I want to state right away) > > > On Saturday, August 06, 2016 04:22:44 PM Florent Daigniere wrote: > > > > I've realised the other day that the fund-raising campaign (what's > > still on the website) is conducted solely with the intent of > > funding > > xor for a year... leaving his assignment/performance apart from the > > discussion... how does any of it cater for "after"? > > I have been the one to explicitly add the following task suggestion > to the > money poll: > > > > > Fundraising: While volunteers did help with fundraising, they don't > > seem to > > enjoy it very much – we've contacted much fewer entities than those > > listed > > in the Wiki. So also have Freenet's employee do it. Important as > > Matthew > > will require much higher level of funding to come back. > > I've also voted for that. > > So in other words: I am totally willing to deal with fundraising > while being > an employee should I be allowed to continue my employment.
Willingness is one thing, capacity (and track record) is another. Do you have any form of experience at successfully raising money? Why should the project pick *you* as its paid resource to do it? "because you're willing to do it as a paid employee" doesn't strike me as a good-enough reason. > I've did lots of efforts *after* money ran out and it turned out to > be a bad > decision to wait for that long with it - it just takes some months to > reach > results. > Thus as a conclusion I'm now eager to allocate some time to it > *while* we > still have money. > Duh. logic fail. > (I've in fact scheduled 2 interviews with journalists currently to > raise > awareness even while being a volunteer. Those things just take time. > Please be > patient.) > That's PR, it's best handled by people who know what they're doing... and really, it needs to be coordinated. In the past Ian did successfully^wskillfully handle it; did you at least run it by him? Florent
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