<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:26 AM, 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 June 2016 at 15:25, 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-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I am all for raising funds but we need to articulate the reason why we need them.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"></div></blockquote></div></span>To pay for labour to achieve goals, such as the existing translations and finance manager roles and perhaps others in the future; to find out which members are active in 2016; to pay for all travel expenses for all active members to attend a sugar summit... there are countless things you can do with general funds. </blockquote></div><br><br></div></div></div><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><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra">Sean<br><br></div></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></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? (An open-ended, non-specific campaign smells like Tyranny :P in the spirit of the article you shared with me the other day [1]).</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/<span>tyranny</span>.htm</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.librelearnlab.org&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEygVObYlf51mAfa41U-UoH3wUTYw" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">www.librelearnlab.org</a></div></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div>
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