We need to find a few ways to generate money for travel costs, servers and such. Please add.

fund raising

whom to ask

users
Distros
- Novell
- Canonical
- Mandriva
- Xandros
- Linspire
Trolltech
Magnatune
Google
Last.fm
Jamendo?
HP?
Dell?
Intel?
AMD?
NLnet (up to 30.000 EUR sponsoring for open-source projects/events)

Roktober

One possibility is this: instead of doing our yearly month-of-october fundraiser, we do an extended period "amarok 2 fundraiser". we could start it in october, like the roktober fundraiser, but extend it to the release of amarok 2. the key reasons are:

make it unique. if we have "another roktober", people see it as just another yearly request for funds, and are less likely to donate. if we can individualize this as a one-time fundraiser, more donations (big and small) will come in.
tie this to amarok2. we have been working on amarok2 for a while, and whats more, people *know* that we have been working on it for a while. it already has publicity and a positive image, so if we link this to the fundraiser, people are again more likely to donate (i'm thinking bigger donors especially).
longer == more money :)

comments? ideas? --lfranchi

This sounds wonderful. I'm all in! Rok2ber? --Emunkki

Lottery

Everybody who contribute money joins the lottery for a nice price:

I-Pod with engraved Amarok logo (can be done at my work, have to ask for costs) --serenity

nah, bad idea, makes user think we raise money to spend it for one user --apachelogger 21:07, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

but last Roktober an ipod was given out "As a thank you to our supporters, we will be entering everyone that donates $10 US (or equivalent) or more in a random drawing for a cool new 2GB iPod Nano." --serenity

3D model of the logo (same here) --serenity

better that sounds--apachelogger 21:07, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

what to ask for

money
sponsoring of specific trips to a conference
hardware for development
hardware for hosting

(please keep in mind that it might be easier to get one-time funding for a specific goal than a long term commitment without a visible outcome)

what we can give in return

prizes for users giving money at the fund raiser (like an IPod)
official sponsor status
namedropping in talks and on conferences
naming and linking in news and press releases
official sponsor of amarok: and then a small badge on the website?
banners inside amarok itself
- no - but maybe something similar to current magnatune situation or a new sponsors page in the about dialog

what we can not give in return

banner on website
- not if it's non-non-profit ... KDE dislikes that, so we could do that only for getamarok.com since the e.V. owns amarok.kde.org

other sponsoring

KDEeV

more of us need to become eV members (please fill out http://ev.kde.org/resources/ev-questionnaire.text and talk to markey so we can get more expenses for conferences paid by the eV)