Step 1 is to find a noble cause for the funding to go towards. Put yourself in Company X's shoes: why should they give RocketsOSI $500 towards their project (which is?) instead of to Engineers Without Borders trying to purify water in the developing world? If we want to purchase 100 usb drives to give free software to school kids so they can do their homework, that's a good project start.
Step 2: identify organizations that are aligned with the goals of the project. If we're fundraising to bring a speaker on Open Internet Technology to talk, then we can talk to someone like Hanson Inc. Promoting LibreOffice to freshmen? Maybe ask a company that contributes that project or to similar projects. Step 3: Do what you said you were going to do. Student orgs have received hundreds from large companies in the past and failed to deliver on their promises. Those companies will no longer donate to that group (and are less likely to donate to others from UT) for at least as long as that corporate rep is still employed there (5+ years). Photos, articles, etc are good documentation to share with your corp donors. Recognizing their donation in an event program or webpage is the least you can do; inviting them to participate or advertise jobs/software/services is a good idea too. *Christopher J. Volny * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419-667-6752 (mobile) [email protected] On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Hussein Al-Olimat <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello All, > > @Chris: when do you think we should start looking for funding for the > ideas we talked about? > > I guess we will be done building the distro faster than we thought. Do > you think it is a good idea to ask for the funding now or wait until April > since our main work will start after the release of The LTS Ubuntu 14.04 > in April 17... I guess? > > @Ali: do you have any idea if we can get funding from the communities? > any kind of funding/donations anything can encourage students? > > @Ahmad: we will talk to the departments as you said when we make sure > when to actually start asking for funding and maybe after designing a > procure > describing the events in details. > > @Hisham: you should engage with the guys here to see make things work > please. we need to get funding to really show our contribution. > > Thanks all in advance. > > Hussein > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~rocketsosi > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~rocketsosi > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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