<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 June 2016 at 09:48, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Dave - Walter means how we articulate to potential donors, i.e. the compelling story I have mentioned. It's a marketing problem and rushing through a motion is not the solution - we need to be clear what our vision and major goals are, and relate them convincingly to donors.<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>+1. I am in favor of a fund raising effort it is has a clear goal and message as to what the funds are for. A fund-raiser to hold a Sugar Summit would be a really nice thing, for example. Can we rough out a budget so we can set a target for the fund raiser?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess we'd need about $20,000 to cover the travel expenses of everyone who has contributed in the last 6 months, and $50 for some breakfast bagels. :)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> (An open-ended, non-specific campaign smells like Tyranny :P in the spirit of the article you shared with me the other day [1]).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>hahah :) </div><div><br></div><div>Well, WMF, FSF and Conservancy all run open-ended, non-specific campaigns every December, eh?<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I don't know if it is realistic in terms of timing, but doing a Global Sugar Summit in conjunction with the Libre Learning Summit [2] being organized by Mariah in October at MIT (we already have a venue) would be ideal.</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div>I drafted a wiki page event summary, and I invite everyone to edit it:</div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summit/2016" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summit/2016</a></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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