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* Jan Vancura: > Vid Ayer wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> On 7/13/06, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> * Jan Vancura: >>>>> All profit belongs to the Marketing Team. >>> [snip] >>>> Do you think it is really necessary for the marketing team to >>>> have financial resources? I have to say that I don't at the >>>> moment. >>> I tend to agree. If I understand correctly, revenue generation is >>> not one of the goals for the Marketing team or is it ? Maybe I am >>> missing the picture or too many ideas are popping up resulting in >>> confusion for readers like me. > Think of it this way: I privately invest money in printing and sending > stickers (with risk to myself, too). I will inevitably have extra > money or a deficit in the end. If there's a deficit - I foot it. If > there's profit, I say it "belongs to the marketing team". I realise > now that it's not entirely correct to say so, because the team cannot > have property. From now on I will use "will be used for the benefit of > the marketing team and spreadubuntu". > > What I intend are small bounties, possible investment in next batch, > other material etc.. Bounties are a great way of motivating people. > One bounty was given out in the MT, by Lloyd Hardy - for the best > marketing idea (I don't remember what it was). The recipient decided > he would donate the bounty to a charity :). But taht's not a necessary > thing, of course. > > The whole initiative's purpose is NOT generating revenue, but it might > be a side effect. I have to say that I still think that this is quite a dangerous idea. If you are undertaking this project on the basis that you might lose or gain money, I think you should do so on the basis that it is your commercial initiative. I don't think there is anywhere near enough coherence about this so far to form the basis of a marketing team "budget" for bounties or such. For future marketing team initiatives, it might be best to consider whether to approach them on the basis of breaking even. For example, the documentation team publishes some of its books, and the purchaser pays exactly the price of publishing/postage. That way there is no problem with what to do with royalties, who holds them etc etc. Matt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEugxutSaF0w5rBv8RAkzAAJ9Cs2MDgBqNJxyWEpaRxocruYVoSQCeOo+L m5yNQ1tgxj9QFX5gNJMu+uM= =WwlF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
