[gentoo-nfp] Events Kit!

[Christel Dahlskjaer]

Hi guys, 

How does one go about writing a proposal for funding? Is there a form
somewhere or do I just e-mail trustees@? 

To give you a quick rundown of what I am after, having had the pleasure
of diving into the Events kits for Joomla and GNOME I really want us to
have similar, they have a large metal box that is shipped to various
conferences (when they're not at an event it lives in the garage of one
of their developers and it's contents are replenished and checked prior
to each event), the box contains T-shirts in various sizes for people to
wear at the event (so, they do it fairly cheap and wash and reuse, I see
no problem with that if kept in good condition), leaflets, two TFTs, two
small machines (I'll ask around and see if we can score a couple of free
machines, I'm thinking one X86 or AMD64 box and one PPC (or other
arch)), some cables, some swag as give-aways (KDE does some nifty pin
badges, others do funky case badges, we could also look at pens, or
branded mints or whatever), a small projector, posters, a sign, t-shirts
etc for sale and a small cashbox. 

I have some better notes on paper, which actually gives a greater idea
and I am waiting to get a few quotes back for various things before I
propose that you give us (PR) the cash to do it. If we do T-shirt and CD
sale fex. then the initial outlay should be covered fairly fast, and the
kit would become selfsufficient for re-stocking swag and leaflets. 

I noticed that Chris had already touched briefly on something similar
from the archives, and I'll make sure we get together and discuss it a
bit.

On a different note, I was saddened to see that LWE UK has had a 'Gentoo
not welcome' rule for a while now, after our developers kept booking
booths and not turning up.. I believe that is now rectified and we are
more than welcome in the future, even if it did cost me a hangover and
endless hours of talk with the guys that sponsor the .org pavillion! ;)

I'd also like to ask what sort of time frame we look at for having a
funding proposal approved, as it would be nice to get a kit ready by
early 2007 as there's a few conferences happening. I know off-hand that
we'll have a official presence at SCALE, FOSSDEM, Linuxforum and
possibly LISA. All of which take place in February and March, which
would mean it'd be nice to be able to send a kit across to the
developers present at these and replenish as needed inbetween. 


-- 
I remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant,
Christel - conventionally stuck in the 1920s