Swag for FUDCons

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Jul 19 20:18:58 UTC 2010


On 07/19/2010 04:15 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> Note that selling things isn't necessarily just a money thing; people
> who have given you money and gotten swag in return have quite
> literally bought in, and that identification (for better or for worse)
> makes them more passionate advocates for what you're doing. In other
> words, they *want* to give you money as a form of contribution; it
> isn't a bad strategy to let them do that even if you don't actually
> need the money.

Sure. But until we're in a position where Fedora can responsibly take
money from people without causing tax complexities to Daddy Shadowman,
it isn't an option.

~spot


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