Re: [sudo-discuss] Earn Money Helping Sudo Room: Write Grants - Get 50%.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I appreciate the brainstorm on fundraising, and as someone who's written half a dozen grants this past year, I also appreciate just how much time and energy it takes to do so. However, I think this is a bad idea. Namely, because it uses individual financial incentivization of what should be the natural incentive to help the community you participate in. Receiving a set-upon grantwriter stipend if we get the grant? Cool. Receiving 50% of any funds procured from essentially bragging about the community? Not cool, and probably not compliant with the terms and conditions of most grants. Relevant wiki page for finding funding opportunities and documentation from past grants: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Funding Also, the projected date for the Omni move-in (WHICH IS LOOKING REALLY REALLY POSSIBLE) is June 1st, not July 1st, and we would probably be organizing a crowdfunding campaign before then. Just my two cents! - -Jenny On Wed 02 Apr 2014 09:56:59 PM PDT, Marc Juul wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Maximilian Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com>

>> Hello at this week's meeting we made a new fundraising strategy, that

>> participatory. >> >> ==Background== >> Last year we won two $4,000 cash grants, and a $2,000 3D printer just

>> being sudo room and filling out forms. >> >> ==New fundraising Idea== >> 1. Any sudoer can fill out, or add to this list of 41 grants to apply

>> 2. The grant writers for an application will receive a recommendation

>> sudomeeting to get 50% commission for applying on sudo's behalf. >> 3. We organize on fundraising(a)lists.sudoroom.org , so sign up there to >> discuss > > That might be difficult to accomplish for some grants (we'll have to > look at individual grant's terms and conditions) but if not possible > for a certain grant, maybe we can let the grant-writer spend them on a > sudo room project of their choosing instead? Of course it should be a > project related to the kinds of things that sudo room does and should > be open/free/libre. > >> ==Medium-Term Strategy=== >> 1. We think that if the Omni-move-in happens, we would like to

>> with them together as a unit. We will wait until July 1st. >> >> 2. If the Omni falls through, then we will have a sudo space individual >> fundraiser. Idea is a harmonious-hackathon / pay-what-you-can dev

>> one weekend. It can be paired with this idea: >> 2.1 Offer to host an RSVP Dinner w/ Francisco and Liberation Food

- -- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." - -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss