A book purchasing program was raised at today's board meeting, as an idea to stimulate both community involvement and participation in development.
We've done book purchasing programs successfully a couple times before, and they proved to be cost-effective and reasonably straightforward.
Here are the referendums for these two events, which lay out a procedure I think we could roughly follow here as well. The email text we used is also included.
* 2013 Developer Education Book Campaign https://alpha.inkscape.org/board/referendums/resolutions/developer_education...
* 2014 Developer Education Book Campaign https://alpha.inkscape.org/board/referendums/resolutions/developer_education...
Mc, you took the action to draft a proposal, right? The main things that need defined are a) how we determine who is eligible to receive books, and b) what the list of books are to offer. An estimate of how many people we expect to order books, and the avg book price, can give a rough estimate of total costs.
Bryce