[PSF-Volunteers] Better fund raising for the PSF

[Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto]

Hi Stephan

Probably i can help you, i gona read more about it


> * Writing up a newsletter monthly and distributing it
> * Writing the code and setting up infrastructure needed
>   for billing recurring donors (they give credit card that
>   gets billed monthly; most of this is supported by the
>   credit card processor, but some work is needed as well)

could be

> * Identifying potential corporate donors and pursuing them
>   (probably after the PSF comes up with a better channel
>   for corporate donors that doesn't automatically make them
>   all into voting members; this is where I was talking about
>   recommending changes to the board)
> 
> Hope that helps... I recognize that we're a community that doesn't 
> really have much experience with these kinds of things (I certainly 
> don't) but hope there is interest in learning with the motivation that 
> a well-funded PSF could do quite a bit for the Python community.

You are right, we don't have so much experience in this things, i want 
help, but i dont know how. Maybe i coulbe not exactly a help for you.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Stephan
> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Stephan
>>
>>I can undertand your proposal, but I don't understand what kinf of help are
>>you writing. What must be do expecificly if some of us decided help you.
>>
>>
>>
>>Stephan Deibel wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've received absolutely no response from the message below.  If
>>>there is interest, please let me know before I recommend disbanding the PSC
>>>at the next board meeting.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>- Stephan
>>>
>>>
>>>On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Stephan Deibel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I would like to try to build a better fund raising capability for the PSF.
>>>>While the PSF has done OK obtaining new sponsors by osmosis, and has done
>>>>reasonably well through PyCon sponsorships, I think a manageable amount of
>>>>additional effort could really increase our visibility as a worthy
>>>>charitable organization.
>>>>
>>>>For example, we could send a semi-monthly news letter + appeal for
>>>>donations to CLP, we could seek out potential corporate donors more
>>>>agressively, we could make recommendations to the board on how to
>>>>restructure available sponsor/donor opportunities to make those more
>>>>attractive, we could start a recurring donor program and/or send
>>>>solicitations to past donors say 2X/year, and so forth.
>>>>
>>>>In the past year, we've started our grants program (with some success, tho
>>>>projects are still going on), we've funded a website redesign (which I
>>>>hope will soon get over the deployment hump), and of course we continue to
>>>>be the money bag behind PyCon which may in future years require
>>>>increasingly larger $ commitments from the PSF.  So there are certainly
>>>>compelling reasons to donate to the PSF.
>>>>
>>>>Are there people on this list that are interested *and able* to help with
>>>>any of this?
>>>>
>>>>I should note that the PSF has the Python Support Committee (PSC) that is
>>>>chartered to work on this kind of thing, but it has done nothing recently
>>>>and there appears to be no interest or time available among its current
>>>>members to work on this.  My intention as chairman of that committee is to
>>>>reform it with a fresh pool of volunteers, if some can be found here.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>Stephan Deibel
>>>>Chairman of the Board
>>>>Python Software Foundation
>>>>
>>>>http://python.org/psf
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>>
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