Hi all, I am back after a long gap. Hope everyone is fine. Lets discuss our expenses and available and expected funds from the sponsors.
Some of you were discussing about the T-shirt design from AtTSH, what happened to that thing. And also specify the team members for this team. cheers!! ekta On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Abhishek Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Bipin Gautam wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Wouldn't it be better for calling sponsorships for SFD event with a list >> of reasons as a possible spending if enough donations are collected from >> SFD event? I feel it would be more strategic to call for donations by >> listing out goal sets to better justify a donation apeal for SFD. >> >> Like maybe an attempt to recognize the existing count of FOSS developer of >> Nepal and try to create an environment to attract more contributors by >> having a platform to group on more community projects with (maybe) by >> running some local community server like that of "SourceForge" for Nepalese >> FOSS contributors. >> >> I feel its really time for the FOSS community to cocoon outside the >> occasional FOSS trainings, plan on goal sets and take a new step further >> than that of our last year... >> >> That was my reasons to introduce my topic on this sponsorship discussion. >> If approperiate such reason can be 1 more cause for a possible contributor >> to sponsor for SFD event like with last year's freedom toster ideas if we >> had enough fund..... >> >> With the call for SFD sponsorship, I felt the community should also >> parallely plan yearly targets for FOSS promotion which can be put forward as >> reasons to donate for SFD by a sponsher. Such goal sets besides a >> sponsorship proposal may be better justify as more compelling reasons for an >> org to donate for SFD event. >> >> My point is, we may have better chance of collecting more donations for >> SFD if we can market it as a call to meet up new causes as such every year… >> >> Prabin....... you would be our favourate star on [Foss-Nepal] if you try >> to put a little more patience before reaching to conclusions. >> >> Thanks, >> -bipin >> >> On 8/16/08, प्रबीण ( ओपन ठिटो ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Bipin, >>> >>> Don't jump into thread of different subject... Its not to be discussed >>> here.. and others as well please do not start to argue here >>> >>> ok... lets continue with the main topic: >>> >>> [sfd 08] Software Freedom Day '08 Sponsorship >>> >>> and please append the tag* [sfd 08]* before the subject. >>> >>> Thank you Bipin and all. >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Bipin Gautam >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hey guys, >>>> >>>> I really feel its we need to have a "SourceForge" like server to FOSS >>>> developers of Nepal. >>>> >>>> opinions ? >>>> >>>> -bipin >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Prajjwol Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Subir dai, >>>>> Here's something for sponsorship. We ask some T-shirt >>>>> manufacturers like "attsh" or "station" to manufacture T-shirts for us >>>>> and in return we will hang one board or something around MPP. And do >>>>> similar for our other needs..Beltronix for computers or >>>>> something...you know better....... >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Prajjwol Gautam >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 13, 5:13 pm, "Subir Pradhanang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Dear all, >>>>>> >>>>>> As you all must be aware that the upcoming Software Freedom Day 2008 >>>>>> is on September 20, we are looking for some Sponsors to support this >>>>>> annual event. >>>>>> >>>>>> On this regard, if anyone knows of any organization that could >>>>>> potentially support (financially or in kind) this event, please feel >>>>>> free to let us know so that we could approach them. >>>>>> >>>>>> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Software_Freedom_Day_2008 >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Subir >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Subir B. Pradhanangwww.fossnepal.org<http://pradhanangwww.fossnepal.org/> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> X-No-Archive: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> Prabin Gautam "ओपन ठिटो" >>> Registered Linux User #443940 >>> letS makE ouR streeT FOSSible.......... >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > Dear Bipin, > You have a noble viewpoint on this issue. But the problem is that > we're not ourselves ready to materialize the whole concept. Partially your > point can be implemented, especially the idea of jotting down the objectives > and discussing the past success stories in an attempt to attract more > sponsors. But the idea of open source servers (e.g. Sourceforge) needs more > time and effort, and the deadline (till 20th Sept, 2008) can't be met. > Moreover, your idea of drawing analogy between Freedom Toaster and a server > like Sourceforge have different scales of effort, budget and maintainability > issues inherent. Nevertheless, we can think of it as a post SFD '08 issue. > What so ever, we really count on you FOSS enthusiasts to continue > on with this show. > > Regards, > Abhishek Singh > > -- cheers!! Ekta Silwal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
