2010/7/19 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 16:21 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> On 07/19/2010 04:18 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: >> > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 13:15 -0700, Luis Villa wrote: >> >> Note that selling things isn't necessarily just a money thing; people >> >> who have given you money and gotten swag in return have quite >> >> literally bought in, and that identification (for better or for worse) >> >> makes them more passionate advocates for what you're doing. In other >> >> words, they *want* to give you money as a form of contribution; it >> >> isn't a bad strategy to let them do that even if you don't actually >> >> need the money. >> > >> > Maybe funnel it to someone who can who we support? (FSF?) >> >> I suppose that is an option, but that tends to make things more >> complicated. What if someone likes Fedora but not the FSF (hey, it could >> happen)? > > What if we have a rotating list we divy stuff out to? > > E.g., for this FUDcon we'll make a donation to the GNOME foundation. > For this other event we'll donate to the Libre Graphics Meeting fund. > E.g. > > We could also donate to events like GUADEC and the plumbers' conference > and maybe could get a sponsor logo placement for those events? > > ~m It's still taking money in - handing out swag/stuff in return. I think (but IANAL, or a CPA) that's still a sale - and it's still Fedora^H^H^H^H^H^H Red Hat taking money which looks well nigh impossible. It'd be a lot easier for RHT just to hand money to those groups, rather than jump through all the hoops of making swag, selling it, hoping you sell all/most of it, hanging on to the money, getting it accounted for and turned in, pay appropriate taxes, and then cutting a check to $FLOSSy_ORG. (/me says that knowing Daddy Shadowman doesn't have limitless coin in his pocket, and that they already fund a ton of developers and groups, for which we are grateful) _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
