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[Hussein Al-Olimat <2olimatco@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Chris,

First, I don't know why I feel like nobody remembers what we talked about
in the meeting
and what everyone agreed on as a very good idea. Now you are saying you
should find
a noble cause as if you never heard of what we are going to do.

Second, I agree with you about all the things you said about the companies.
we should
target some companies based on their interest and involvement with FOSS.

I guess we need a meeting to discuss this further and see what we can do
about it. It
seems it is more work than I thought and I am not sure we are ready for
this as a team.

Thanks,
Hussein


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Christopher J. Volny <cvolny@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Step 1 is to find a noble cause for the funding to go towards. Put
> yourself in Company X's shoes: why should they give RocketsOSI $500 towards
> their project (which is?) instead of to Engineers Without Borders trying to
> purify water in the developing world? If we want to purchase 100 usb drives
> to give free software to school kids so they can do their homework, that's
> a good project start.
>
> Step 2: identify organizations that are aligned with the goals of the
> project. If we're fundraising to bring a speaker on Open Internet
> Technology to talk, then we can talk to someone like Hanson Inc. Promoting
> LibreOffice to freshmen? Maybe ask a company that contributes that project
> or to similar projects.
>
> Step 3: Do what you said you were going to do. Student orgs have received
> hundreds from large companies in the past and failed to deliver on their
> promises. Those companies will no longer donate to that group (and are less
> likely to donate to others from UT) for at least as long as that corporate
> rep is still employed there (5+ years). Photos, articles, etc are good
> documentation to share with your corp donors. Recognizing their donation in
> an event program or webpage is the least you can do; inviting them to
> participate or advertise jobs/software/services is a good idea too.
>
>
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> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Hussein Al-Olimat <2olimatco@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> @Chris: when do you think we should start looking for funding for the
>> ideas we talked about?
>>
>> I guess we will be done building the distro faster than we thought. Do
>> you think it is a good idea to ask for the funding now or wait until April
>> since our main work will start after the release of The LTS Ubuntu 14.04
>> in April 17... I guess?
>>
>> @Ali: do you have any idea if we can get funding from the communities?
>> any kind of funding/donations anything can encourage students?
>>
>> @Ahmad: we will talk to the departments as you said when we make sure
>> when to actually start asking for funding and maybe after designing a
>> procure
>> describing the events in details.
>>
>> @Hisham: you should engage with the guys here to see make things work
>> please. we need to get funding to really show our contribution.
>>
>> Thanks all in advance.
>>
>> Hussein
>>
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