Swag for FUDCons

[Máirín Duffy]

On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 16:40 -0400, David Nalley wrote:
> It's still taking money in - handing out swag/stuff in return. I think
> (but IANAL, or a CPA) that's still a sale - and it's still
> Fedora^H^H^H^H^H^H Red Hat taking money which looks well nigh
> impossible.

Set a laptop up, if someone wants a tshirt have them use the form a
$money-acceptor-of-choice and if they fill out the form they get a
shirt.

> It'd be a lot easier for RHT just to hand money to those groups,
> rather than jump through all the hoops of making swag, selling it,
> hoping you sell all/most of it, hanging on to the money, getting it
> accounted for and turned in, pay appropriate taxes, and then cutting a
> check to $FLOSSy_ORG. (/me says that knowing Daddy Shadowman doesn't
> have limitless coin in his pocket, and that they already fund a ton of
> developers and groups, for which we are grateful)

~m