We had a nice chat with Louis-David yesterday about the Hackadon and the campaign (Louis-David is now on this list, welcome !)
We had two problems: the crowdfunding campaign we planned is not really a _crowd_funding campaign, it is more a preliminary "b2b" campaign to get enough funding and sponsors for the event. Why using a crowdfunding platform for this, when private and direct contacts could do as well, without blurring our communication? The second problem is this: if our goal is to target not only the usual FLOSS nerds but also the not-so-geek users, why not making it easier for these users to make a donation? Maybe they don't know what project to support, or how to support it. They should be allowed to "support FLOSS" by just registering to the event. If they want to make a donation to a specific project they love, fine. But if they just want to be here and still support FLOSS financially, we should make this possible for them. So let's be clear on the value we provide for what audience, and let's see if we need a crowdfunding platform. There are two scenarios: - We collect money from the sponsors "manually". We set up an eventbrite or meetup page for the registration. Registration is free for participants who don't want to influence where the sponsor money goes, it's 10€ for those who want to get 10 "votes" they can split among FLOSS projects during the hackadon. - We collect money through Arizuka: sponsors participate as sponsors on Arizuka (augmenting the money from real donators), and donators are really participants, who get 10 tokens if they give 10€. Also, we make it clear that participants can come without donating (and maybe donate during the event) but this requires another separate registration process (emails? meetup?) For now I'm leaning toward the first solution because it seems clearer and more "agile" to me, but Jarek you spent a lot of time on the campaign so I feel bad wasting your time. Let's try to think what's best. In any case, we should have decide this before the end of the week to set up the public page and send the first invitations. Thanks, -- Bastien _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://lists.librefunding.org/listinfo/discussion
