On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 08:40:06AM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > > So I spend some time last week pumping information out of a board member > of the Doc. Foundation. In general, they have a lot of individual > sponsors, and then also corporations that are willing to kick in funds > as needed. They get a lot of individual sponsors from their download > page ask. A couple things he mentioned was making sure to set an initial > value of something like $5, where if you leave it open ended people > wonder "can I contribute enough to make a difference" and then don't > contribute because what they could easily afford they don't throw in. > > One thing that they've done similar to us is encourage other people to > set up crowdfunding of development features. They've left it even more > open ended than ours, but it seems they're roughly of the same mind as > us, nice to get that feedback. > > For conferences and hackfests they're mostly getting bids from local > organizing committees that are in charge of fund raising for that event. > I'm not sure how that'd work for us, but it could be something to try if > we wanted to try and create something decoupled from something like LGM. > I know that conferences like GUADEC have been partially funded by local > tourism or promotion grants, which might be something we could tap into > with a local organizing committee. > > Another thing that he pointed out is how the D community is setting up > their conferences: > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0 > > Not sure that we could sell a bunch of $5K items, but it might be a way > to view the budget and what one would get. I love the idea of selling > the conference T-shirts to non-attendees as it's something that I think > we can do well (Inkscape users make cool designs I'd want on a T-shirt) > and it lowers the cost of printing if we increase the numbers. > > Ted
Thanks for digging into this. I agree the T-Shirt perk for $50 donors is nice, although in this case it didn't raise that much total. Most of their money came from the $5k sponsors; I wonder who they were and what the motivation was. Did they know ahead of time there were 2 corporate backers interested in that level? Next biggest source was the Conference Goer fees. That might work better for conferences than for hackathons though. Bryce > On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 10:52 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote: > > > I am thinking it might be good to look at other projects for ideas on > > how they handle various issues in raising money. Here are some links > > for OpenOffice: > > > > Good discussions: > > > > http://planet.documentfoundation.org/ > > > > (Why can planet.inkscape.org be like this?) > > > > Donation page: > > > > http://donate.libreoffice.org/ > > > > Supporters page: > > > > https://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/ > > > > Tav > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
