Hi Bastien and Louis-David,
On 04/11/14 12:44, Bastien Guerry wrote:
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?
I agree, this dual purpose of the campaign is a bit confusing.
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?)
I don't think idea with votes / tokens is good. I mean, yes, in general
it makes sense (I was thinking about the same in BountyFunding), but on
the other hand it increases complexity and fixes the donation amount.
Why not make the entry fee obligatory for everyone to cover our costs?
Do you think it can discourage participants?
During the event the participants will be able to either donate any
amount to specific software and record it on hackadon website or donate
to the campaign in general and trust the other participants with choice
of projects.
This way we separate event hosting and fundraising.
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.
Don't worry about time spent on campaign - we can probably re-use it as
different form of communication.
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.
Yes, we need to decide ASAP, that's why I think we should keep the
campaign as it is to redistribute money among projects and create event
entry fee to cover hosting costs.
Thanks,
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