> > OK, let me clear a couple myths I have seen thus far: > > > > I just seen that Leo said "not accept any money but instead let the > sponsors > > pay for the expenses directly to the providers." I can say this as a > business > > owner, I am not going to pay your expenses w/o any cut back, and either > are > > 99% of the other business. They want to donate the money. Why? Because > they > > get it back in taxes at the end of the year. >
I completely agree with you Richard, Us in the MA team are effectively running on our pockets; we managed to pull money in with the ubuntu case badge project and we'll see how much of that is left after the shipping costs. but normal costs like getting t-shirts made just for the volunteers at installfests just so they look half decent is costly. Even if the ubuntu-us group does not want to do country wide activities, I do believe that running good projects where we all colaberate and pool our demand will cut down on costs. For example we paid almost $25 each (after setup fees) to get 25 tshirts made; we could have dragged that price way down if we'd have made 400 or 1,000 of them and sent them out to other LoCos and you know if there is demand for producing LoCo materials we should do that, because if one LoCo can make pens and another can make stickers pretty soon we'll have some cheap goodies bags to take to shows. Saying that It's getting dicy, I have to calculate and find out if there is sales tax to pay for this case badges project and that is something I really need an accountant for; unless your team is blessed enough to have one as a volunteer that sort of expertise costs money. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
