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didn't see this on -nfp, Grant, so I'm sending it there. Read below.. |
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On Wednesday 21 September 2005 08:38 am, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Corey Shields wrote: [Tue Sep 20 2005, 06:28:47PM CDT] |
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> > Can I get reimbursed for shipping a box of Gentoo flyers (from the big |
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> > LWE order) to the guys doing the Gentoo booth at LWE-UK? |
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> > Better yet, can we come up with a budget with an easier way of |
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> > allocating and spending such money (a publications budget maybe?) |
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> > Might be a good time to allocate an infra budget as well. |
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> (Forwarding to -nfp, since I'm fairly confident there's nothing |
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> confidential here.) |
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> Indeed, I think a budget for "outreach" would ge a fine idea. |
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> I'm sure that it should really be my job to propose a budget, but I'm |
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> really bad at that sort of thing, especially since I don't have a good |
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> feeling for what the monetary needs of infra and pr actually are. If we |
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> budget $1.5K for infra and $300 for pr, is that in the neighborhood of |
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> what's needed? |
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> -g2boojum- |
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Well, the flyers that were made and shipping them around for LWE-SF was |
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budgeted for $350 and went well over (given the weight and fedex/ups, but |
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that was not all flyers, the demo machines were in on that). It depends on |
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what you would classify as PR. If PR is solely the printed material, then |
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maybe, but if it encompasses promotion of Gentoo as a whole then that would |
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cover things like shipping the demo boxes for LWE. I could think of PR |
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stunts to eat through any kind of budget we can give (CDs for tradeshows are |
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always requested, but they are pricey to do in enough of a quantity to make |
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it worthwhile), but just for starters I think something along the lines of |
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$1k - $1.5k min for the year would be good. In my mind, PR should be second |
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on our priority list next to infra.. but that might be just me. :) |
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The question then is where does the PR budget land? I would like to see the |
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Foundation handle most of the PR and promotion of Gentoo, since it just seems |
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easier to keep it close to the source. Again, this is just a personal |
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idea/opinion. |
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As for infra, $1.5k is good for covering operations and incidentals, but |
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should not be expected to include any servers that need to be purchased |
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(because it obviously isn't enough). Such items should be proposed |
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seperately for now. But the $1.5k should be enough of a buffer to cover |
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things like disk failures and to get Lance a leash^H^H^H pager. |
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So if we went $1.5k for PR and $1.5k for Infra, making $3k for the year, we |
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should be just fine financially. We are averaging $4k a quarter with the |
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prospect of another $1.5k/quarter revenue just around the corner. |
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Cheers, |
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-Corey |
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Corey Shields |
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Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |