Good Morning Helen (in 45 mins) :) On Monday 04 Apr 2011 23:49:47 Helen South wrote: > So how can we promote the brand through retail sales so as to raise > money to help out with much needed funds ? > > > Stuart > > My understanding is that this is dependant on the Foundation being > established so that we have the mechanisms to legally handle funds. > > In the meantime there is no legitimate way to do this, and > 'workarounds' are dubious and best avoided. > > However there are bright minds at work on that so hopefully it won't > be a terribly long time until the foundation is a reality.
Well, I am selling the DVD's at the moment here in the UK at the rate of about 4-5 a week, some of the money raised goes back into marketing, at the moment through paid advertising in the loot and Qype and others, I am going to setup a token payment to both KDE and Gnome Foundations to assist them and once the foundation for openSUSE Foundation is ready I will do the same. I thought about making a regular PayPal Direct debit for about £20 pounds each money - equivelent to about the profit from one sold box per month to each foundation to start off with and as business grows, then perhaps I can expand that, but I am looking to expand this business model to other countries and each of those countries will also be making a donation to said foundations in time. Hopefully this will benefit all the coomunities upstream and within our own foundation when its launched. -- Kind Regards Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux 24 Vincent Street Bolton BL1 4SA Tel: +44(0)1204 410474 Mob: +44(0)7868 028028 www.bolin.org.uk Distributing openSUSE in the UK Registered Linux User: 529825 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
