[p2p-research] P2P Foundation 2008 fundraising drive: please support our efforts

Tue Aug 19 13:31:25 CEST 2008

I'm really open to that, perhaps you can suggest such a person?

Michel

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Abdul-Rahman Advany <abdulrahman at advany.com
> wrote:

> Maybe interesting to know that a group in the netherlands, called great
> place to live is using a professional fundraiser to raise about 150k of
> funding. Somehow fundraising is a specialized field of expertise.... maybe
> using a prefessional fundraiser might be an idea... someone that can
> convince corporations that p2pfoundations provides value to the world...
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM, james burke <lifesized at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Fascinating and worthy dialogue going on here.
>>
>> I hear the call for "leanness" and for some basic (cash money) funding.
>> My own 2 cents. I have put up the funding for all the monthly hosting
>> costs,
>> and paid legal bills for the setting up of the foundation. Aside from
>> that,
>> i put in time to manage various technical and community issues. I'm not
>> always on top
>> of these things either. Just remembered i need to implement that print
>> feature for blog posts
>> so that it doesn't print both left and side columns;)
>>
>> I do see my own contribution as a sort of global civil service. It all
>> depends on how
>> much i'm earning as to what i can contribute. Having now done this for 2
>> years, my
>> personal leaning is towards more traditional funding (whether through a
>> Soros Foundation grant or a collective of companies whoput together funding
>> that provides for a stable base).
>>
>> I love the free-for-all way we are growing, and think that adding some
>> basic
>> funding would not draw away from that chaos. It would mean just more
>> reach, stability
>> and support to projects that fit the values we espouse.
>>
>> I realize we are still in the middle of this funding call, but see that
>> it's produced a different although worthy result. A call for accounting of
>> what the foundation does and where it's going.
>>
>> Let us know if any of you know some Soros like funds that would fit the
>> bill. Personally i'd like to have steady funding by the end of 2008, not
>> only to pay for infrastructure but for funding groups to work on more
>> considered content and application projects.
>>
>> j
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Shirish,
>>>
>>> Here's the paypal explanation.
>>>
>>> I simply sent very short messages from within Payal, reminding people of
>>> the general fundraising drive, but in that letter, they get an automatic
>>> email button, "Accept", which automatically deducts the proposed amount from
>>> their paypal account.
>>>
>>> I think it is most of all the ultralow 'mental transaction cost', i.e.
>>> clicking on just one button, that accounts for the success, not any secret
>>> in the content of the message,
>>>
>>> Michel
>>>
>>>  On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:18 PM, shirish <shirishag75 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>  Michel it would have be essential to know what sort of mails did
>>>> paypal send which invoked better response then the ones you sent.
>>>>
>>>> Another thing see if possibly google checkout should give a better
>>>> service. The charges are lower then paypal while do also do know that
>>>> not many people know about google checkout as told by Valentin.
>>>>
>>>> While not really relevant but one of the things would be to network
>>>> with something like the "OLPC" project as well for they are also
>>>> having same/similar questions although there target is children,
>>>> learning, semantics, constructism and so on and so forth. There is
>>>> lots to be gained there as well as far as understanding and the issues
>>>> therein.
>>>>
>>>> For e.g. I'm looking forward as to when the open80211.s draft is
>>>> ratified and can have products so I can buy a lappie (maybe OLPC
>>>> itself at that time) which is 100% free of binary blobs.
>>>>
>>>> I do hope you do succeed in your fundraising activities.
>>>> --
>>>>  Regards,
>>>>  Shirish Agarwal
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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