On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 4 June 2016 at 15:25, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am all for raising funds but we need to articulate the reason why we >>> need them. >>> >> To pay for labour to achieve goals, such as the existing translations and >> finance manager roles and perhaps others in the future; to find out which >> members are active in 2016; to pay for all travel expenses for all active >> members to attend a sugar summit... there are countless things you can do >> with general funds. > > > > Dave - Walter means how we articulate to potential donors, i.e. the > compelling story I have mentioned. It's a marketing problem and rushing > through a motion is not the solution - we need to be clear what our vision > and major goals are, and relate them convincingly to donors. > > Sean > > +1. I am in favor of a fund raising effort it is has a clear goal and message as to what the funds are for. A fund-raiser to hold a Sugar Summit would be a really nice thing, for example. Can we rough out a budget so we can set a target for the fund raiser? (An open-ended, non-specific campaign smells like Tyranny :P in the spirit of the article you shared with me the other day [1]). I don't know if it is realistic in terms of timing, but doing a Global Sugar Summit in conjunction with the Libre Learning Summit [2] being organized by Mariah in October at MIT (we already have a venue) would be ideal. regards. -walter [1] http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm [2] www.librelearnlab.org <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.librelearnlab.org&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEygVObYlf51mAfa41U-UoH3wUTYw> -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
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