Hello Paulo, Le Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:04:51 -0300, Paulo de Souza Lima <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Hello. =) > > 2011/9/1 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions > <[email protected] > > > > > > > This was brought up a few months ago, and I do not remember the > > answers. > > > > For those who will be selling copies of their distribution DVDs, or > > coffee mugs, tee-shirts, etc., there could be a listed line stating > > something like the following: "A portion of this purchase is > > donated to The Documentation Foundation and Marketing teams to help > > the pay for the cost running their servers and the marketing items > > for the technology shows." Then there would be something saying > > about TDF/LibreOffice people and the marketers are all volunteers, > > and would benefit from donated funds to offset the cost of the > > marketing materials. > > > > So the question is, how do people who sell items, that are LO > > based, get the donations to TDF and/or get it into the hands of the > > marketing people to "help offset the cost of doing business"? > > > > Now that there is LibreOffice documentation for all the modules > > [except for Base] It may be the time to start looking into the > > process to sell the distribution DVDs [NA-DVD and others], plus any > > mugs, shirts, hats, etc., etc., that some individual or group will > > be offering. I think I remember seeing a "donation" statement on > > Drew's "test" merchandising page, Plus, I remember seeing it > > somewhere else. So, if Drew, and others, collect donations, where > > does it go and who gets it? > > > > > > NOTE: I do know that TDF/LO is in the process of chartering > > [making sure it is done completely and correctly for all the > > various government regulations involved], so there may not be an > > "official" TDF/LO banking account in their name till that is done. > > > > > I'd like to include some other issues to this thread: > > 1 - Where/When/How will the accounting on this financial resources be > publicly displayed, including donations made via TDF website? (This > question was made by an young man who was watching my last lecture > about LibreOffice) If you mean the budget, we need to have the foundation approved. Otherwise it's FroDev (in Germany) and I'm sure their accounting is checkable. > 2 - Most of people who really contribute to > LibreOffice are willing to participate of great events like FISL, > CONSEGI, Campus Party, and others (just to say some local events) and > have no money to do it. Why can't they support their costs with such > events obtaining resources from LibreOffice stuff they could sell? I think this would lead to quite a lot of issues. > 3 - What will be the criteria to support local community > representatives (i.e. the local marketing teams, events organization, > marketing stuff, books printing, etc.) with part of those resources? > Or are those resources only to support international activities or > TDF (the organization) activities? So that is a real question, we have a session about this in Paris and we need to make real decisions together with the NGOs working with us. > 4 - Will money contributors have > some kind of advantage than those who don't contribute with money? No, never ever. :-) best, Charles. > What should it be? How should it be? > > My questions are only to clarify some issues that certainly will > arise in the near future. At least one of them has just arose in my > last lecture and I couldn't answer to it objectively because I had no > information on that. > > Cheers. > -- Charles-H. Schulz Membre du Comité exécutif The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
