<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hi Sean!<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 May 2016 at 04:42, Sean DALY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Handing over marketing to anyone with a deep pocket is incomprehensible to me, I'd much rather just see "gold sponsor status" or something similar. Do people really need the recognition?<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Offering to suggest a codename is hardly "handing over marketing." Let's experiment! :)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div></div><div>I'm also confused about the public statement bit - don't we already have member pages? </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can't see anything on <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org">www.sugarlabs.org</a> ;)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Important contributions are made by members who already donate their time and would perhaps prefer not to donate funds too, do they get to do a public statement?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure! Anyone can make a pull request to the website :)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Social media offers a very effective means for microdonation fundraising drives, and we haven't done that yet. As I understand it, this is more like voluntary membership dues - a fundraising drive (which would be associated with a tangible goal, e.g. an alternate hardware platform) would be separate.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep :)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div></div>In my view, requesting conditions or offering perks shouldn't be associated with voluntary membership dues. I'd prefer the following:<br><br>Motion: To request donations from Sugar Labs Members, to be allocated to the General Fund through the SFC. The annual donation requested will be $12 USD from members
who self-identify as low-income (such as students); $36, $120, or $600 USD from general
members.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">Since you sent this to SLOBs, I guess they will have to vote on both motions and we'll see which is passed :D </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers</div><div class="gmail_extra">Dave</div></div>