On 12/7/06, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a discussion a long time ago about Django t-shirts (at > OSCON?). My question for the core devs is: Why not set up a quick Cafe > Press site for a couple simple t-shirts and use the money to help fund > development? Maybe put up bounties for some bugs or features? Or > simply split the proceeds each month?
It'd be great to have t-shirts, and I know Jacob and at least one other person (in the UK, I think) have made Django t-shirts in the past. My concern would be with the money. We would need to spell out precisely how we'd spend the money *before* we got any money. The "Producing Open Source Software" book has some good things to say about that: """ A widely-used project can sometimes get significant contributions, from both individuals and organizations, just by having an online donation button, or sometimes by selling branded merchandise such as coffee mugs, T-shirts, mousepads, etc. A word of caution: if your project accepts donations, plan out how the money will be used before it comes in, and state the plans on the project's web site. Discussions about how to allocate money tend to go a lot more smoothly when held before there's actual money to spend; and anyway, if there are significant disagreements, it's better to find that out while it's still academic. """ http://www.producingoss.com/html-chunk/money.html#types-of-involvement Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproject.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
