On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 01:12:37AM -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
Hey board,
Can we get some conference stuff funded? Primarily, we need a slick banner for SCaLE... the standard one they provide is horrible. Also, if we can find a good supplier, selling Inkscape shirts (for very little profit) would be really cool to both spread the word, make users feel pride, and to raise small amounts of money. Selling at cost may be more awkward due to the odd amounts we'd have to ask for, but if we put it forth as "the less than $1 difference" or "the extra dollar"->"gets contributed to the project". At the very least we need shirts for people manning booths. Any thoughts?
I think they both sound like good ideas.
Our donation page specifically says that donations will be used to support conferences "such as SCALE", so that seems like a no-brainer. Get a quote on a design, post it to the board and we'll do a vote. Really the only question is where the banner should live between events.
The T-shirts seems like a good idea too, although a bit more complicated. I assume for this we'd need to get some approved amount of $$ for printing the shirts, then some plan for how to dispose of shirts not sold at the event.
Bryce
P.S. I'll get the results of this week's vote out this weekend.