Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

[oliverp <oliver propst gmail com>]

On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 10:48 +0200, oliverp wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 22:02 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
>  I think we can do more with organization sponsorship and individual donations than we are doing right now. 
> We have a product that is naturally of interest to a lot of consumers and corporate users, and of interest 
> to hardware and application developers to be compatible with. We also have technology that is of interest 
> to people to build their own products with or create services around. When it became known that the GNOME 
> Foundation was in a difficult financial situation, we received an unprecedented number of individual 
> donations. These were previously untapped donors who are very supportive of GNOME. I think we should aim to 
> increase how much we get in private donations, and we can do that by reporting to our donors how their 
> money is being used and having yearly fundraising campaigns. We need to dedicate our fundraising energy to 
> these two sources because they are complimentary to the goals we have for advancing our technology. As a 
> Foundation, even with an ED, we have 
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>  limited resources, so we need to consider how to allocate them most effectively.
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>
> > I'd like to share a great article about fundraising by the Ada Initiative founders which has informed 
> > some of my views on it.
> > http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-ada-initiative-founders-on-funding-activism-for-women-in-open-source
That is a great article thanks for sharing! The Engagement Team have started a discussion [1] about how the 
Foundation
can become more effective in the fundraising, and as part of that effort
set-up a wiki page [2] with some resources on the subject (have added
the post it to the wiki). 

I hope you are interested in joining this effort, the Engagement Team
want to collaborate closely with the Board in this.

1https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/2014-April/msg00052.html
2https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/FriendsOfGNOME/HowWeCanImprove