OpenWrt Donation Campaign

[Rich Brown]

Hi Baptiste,

> On Jun 4, 2021, at 3:42 AM, Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 31-05-21, Rich Brown wrote:
>> +1 to everything that Paul says. I created a Google Doc that enumerates these expenses. Please: 
>> 
>> 1) Update/add in any other expenses and 
>> 2) Send a note to this list that you've updated it
>> 
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Ht12fJYUB_NuvZ45DT-hbUUwWFtzwXJzZJrxv2mnro/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> Thanks, but please use the wiki for this: we already have expense details
> there, and it's more durable.

I had thought about using the wiki for this first-draft, but I worried that it was "too durable" and that anything that appeared there would seem to be "cast in stone".

I really wanted to get some discussion going here on the list for the amounts we should allocate/plan for:

- Current infrastructure
- Additional infrastructure
- Annual Conference
- Travel budget
- Paying the logo designer
- Purchasing an initial order of t-shirts, etc.
- And anything else.

I threw out my own Scientific Wild Ass Guesses for the amounts in that spreadsheet. Others are free to chime in with better numbers, or additional expenses.

Once we have agreement on how we'd spend the money, we can work on a plan for raising it...

Thanks.

Rich

> 
> Baptiste
> 
>>> On May 31, 2021, at 5:25 PM, Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> May 30, 2021 06:56:52 Rich Brown <richb.hanover at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Pono,
>>>> 
>>>>> On May 29, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Daniel Pono Takamori <pono at sfconservancy.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hey everyone, I'm Pono and I'm the new project liason and community organizer
>>>>> at the Software Freedom Conservancy.
>>>> ...
>>>>> This leads me into the second point of getting together to plan a fundraiser.
>>>>> Is this thread a good place to start the conversation or is a new thread
>>>>> preferred?
>>>> 
>>>> I'm glad to have you on-board. I am taking the liberty of starting a new thread for this conversation.
>>>> 
>>>> I think the first step would be to decide on the goals of the campaign. Let's construct an annual budget:
>>>> 
>>>> - Expense of infrastructure. You indicate that it's about 300€ per month, or 3 600€ per year
>>> 
>>> I'd like to aim for a bit more so we can charter some CI build stuff at some point.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> - Allocation for annual conference. In 2019, we held a fabulously useful conference in Hamburg. I would hope to do it every year (now that we can actually see people in-person.) OpenWrt paid for the venue, attendees paid for their lodging and meals. I would guess that it cost 3 000 € for that conference. (Others - please correct my guesstimate)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think we paid the travel cost of some developers, flights from the US and China (at least that was planed). Would be nice to have more in the pot to allow non European devs to join.
>>> 
>>>> - SFC contribution: I imagine that SFC gets some amount/percentage for its services. I have no idea of the magnitude.
>>>> 
>>>> - What else? Other services/expenses? Again, I have no idea.
>>> 
>>> We could pay the logo design person some money (or reimburse whoever paid upfront), print some stickers and send them out for free.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> Rich
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