WineConf 2007 Fundraiser proposal

[Tom Wickline]

Hello All,

At this time I would like to make a proposal that we have a month long
"WineConf 07 Fundraiser" starting on March 1st. Over the past three
years all funds sent to the WPF have been used to sponsor Wineconf
attendees travel and needs, and I'm sure these funds have helped in
many other worthwhile ways as well.
  What we could do is put up a news posting on the winehq front page
and also on the Wineconf 07 wiki page asking users and corporations if
they would like to help sponsor the next Conf. We could also put
together a "Donor list" thank you page, and list everyone that gives
and any comments that they would like to make.
  It has become clear that travel expenses for attendees is the major
obstacle in there decision on attending any conference. I know this is
not in any way a full solution to the travel expense problem, but it
may give one more person the opportunity to attend that other wise
would not have had the chance to share in this most pleasant
experience.

Comments?

Tom

[Jeremy White]

> What we could do is put up a news posting on the winehq front page
> and also on the Wineconf 07 wiki page asking users and corporations if
> they would like to help sponsor the next Conf. We could also put
> together a "Donor list" thank you page, and list everyone that gives
> and any comments that they would like to make.

I think this is a great idea.  I've felt for some time now that
we don't thank our contributors all that well.  (I thank each
and every one personally, but...)   I've made an effort to
change that, but like with many good ideas, my day job interfered.

I'd like to see a donations page that was something like this:

Donate:    ______   $  (at > $100, you get a complimentary T-shirt)
                         (at > $500, you get listed in the 'thank you' box
                          on the front page of Winehq.org until after
                          the next Wine conference)
  Name:      ______

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         | |            Check here for your contribution to remain anonymous.
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Note that this imagines making a Wine T-shirt.  We're willing to share
the drunken penguin design if that helps (with the Mac, we've
had to let go of the penguins, to our great sadness :-().

Is that something you'd be willing to work on Tom?
> It has become clear that travel expenses for attendees is the major
> obstacle in there decision on attending any conference. I know this is
> not in any way a full solution to the travel expense problem, but it
> may give one more person the opportunity to attend that other wise
> would not have had the chance to share in this most pleasant
> experience.
>
> Comments?

Last year, the WPF was enough to pay for the conference, but it didn't
really leave much left over to sponsor any travel.

Two Wineconf's ago, the WPF was smaller, but was used exclusively to fund travel;
although all that meant was that 4 or 5 people had their costs defrayed.

Three Wineconf's ago, Lindows paid for the travel of the 'top 20' Wine
developers, with 'top 20' being a rather subjective thing.

What's hard about this is that there is no easy way to decide
who gets funded and by how much.  Obviously, that may well be
a good problem to have, but just be aware that you're creating a job
fraught with political peril when you set about to help fund travel.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Tom Wickline]

On 2/7/07, Jeremy White  wrote:
> Is that something you'd be willing to work on Tom?

Sure thing, may I ask if you would be willing to help as well?
> What's hard about this is that there is no easy way to decide
> who gets funded and by how much.  Obviously, that may well be
> a good problem to have, but just be aware that you're creating a job
> fraught with political peril when you set about to help fund travel.

I would recommend we have a small committee of say five people who
reviews applications for assistance and delegates any travel
assistance. This way no one person has total control over the process
and each applicant would receive a committee vote. ??

Here is my first crack at this page, as you will see there is still
lots of work to be done. But I thought I should share what I have thus
far to gather feed back ASAP.

File: donations.html

I welcome everyone here to help with this or just give general feed back.

Cheers,

Tom
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy

[Tom Wickline]

On 2/8/07, Tom Wickline  wrote:
> File: donations.html

I have made a couple updates this morning, The 'purpose' section
really could use a witty word smith :-) .......

http://wiki.winehq.org/TomWickline?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=d...
> I welcome everyone here to help with this or just give general feed back.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom

[Tom Wickline]

Hello All,

This is my latest revision of the donations page, while there is still
some work to be done I thought I would share it in case anyone here
had any comments.

http://wiki.winehq.org/TomWickline?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=d...

Tom