Re: Q to all candidates: future of Debian finances

Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:01:37 -0300

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Hi Lucas,

Em 09/04/2025 03:59, Lucas Nussbaum escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been wondering for a long time if our fundraising strategy is
> optimal.
> 
> We are mainly fundraising in the context of DebConf. It is useful when
> fundraising to be explicit about a specific goal (organizing a
> conference), but it also means that the convincing work needs to be done
> every year.
> 
> Maybe we should also have a plan to raise funds directly for Debian (not
> specifically for DebConf). It might provide a path to convince
> organizations to allocate a yearly budget to Debian, and turn an opt-in
> scheme (per-DebConf sponsoring) to an opt-out scheme (annual Debian
> contribution, that continues by default every year). In large
> organizations, it might be easier to do the convincing work once and
> then get that sponsorship written in recurring yearly expenses.
> 
> Benefits of sponsoring Debian could include "be mentioned as a Debian
> sponsor at official Debian events, next to event-specific sponsors".
> 
> An important challenge with such a setup would be to build a team
> responsible for organizing that fundraising. It looks like, currently,
> we push that responsibility to the DebConf team (with the
> motivation/hammer that if they don't do well at fundraising, it directly
> limits their ability to organize a nice DebConf).

Some days ago I sent a proposal to organize a crowdfunding campaign for 
regular people donate to Debian.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2025/04/msg00062.html

I known there is a page "How to donate to the Debian Project" but we 
need to call attention to that.

Best regards,

-- 
Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls)
Belo Horizonte - Brasil
Debian Developer
Site: http://phls.com.br
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