Talk:Fund raising ideas

Simple Idea

A great first step for raising low dollar contributions would a merchant account and a gateway to accept contributions on-line. Easy and short money.

If one wanted to be slightly more ambitious one could offer the option for users to buy a laptop for a student as an alternative holiday gift. Also, easy and short money.

Sbennett

deletion request

this was nommed for deletion; it looks fine to me, though low on content. Sj talk 01:24, 14 October 2007 (EDT)

discussing funding

• I thought OLPC was an open project, welcoming contributions from multi-disciplinary teams and alll sectors in society: technical-hard and software, educators, social, law, economics, ... I think that there is a right to discuss funding strategies. There is at least 1 other person that's agreeing with this.... I was just making a page listing all the funding strategies that people want to discuss to make OLPC happening in their country.

• If I understand wel, there still is no firm order of 3 million OLPC's ... with the discussions I've had as a professional financier... I think you have to give the topic room to be developed, to let that energy and knowledge be able to take form. I think it is up to the group to detect what is good and what is bad not you alone. If you think differently ... please inform me of your knowledge on financing/grants etc.

• Where can financiers/public funding specialists discuss funding ?

Countries can get laptops without paying for them? There is no downside to this? No risk? I wasn't born yesterday. This smells like fraud. If the financing method were any good, it could be used for everything: spacecraft, sewage treatment plants, fighter planes, roads, power plants, etc. AlbertCahalan 13:41, 14 October 2007 (EDT)