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FUNDRAISING Discussion Notes
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Funding is moving from 1.2 million per year to potentially 5 millions USD (if everything for has applied to would go fine)
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80% of funding is USG, that's a problem, we need to get a plurality of funding sources.
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Sponsor-F gives long-term funding to solve long term problem fixing issue.
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State department fund circumvention tool, trough passthrough organization, but it does provide quite overheads.
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We have to focus on internet freedom.
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300k for training on country specific issue out of 1.2 million .
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Foundations are difficult to deal with due to the need of personal relationships.
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Applied to European Funding but no luck, probably because is a US company.
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Good news is funding is that there is a RAND study showing how Tor is valuable and central to any issue of Circumvention.
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Good stuff is that the latests funding proposal was including also the "Maintenance costs of existing technology", thus reducing the complexity of project structure design with the regards of SOW.
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When we need to apply for funding, what fundraiser need from developers is "a roadmap" .
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It would be useful to have an updated general roadmap of Tor Project.
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We would like to work also with other organizations such a Guardian by providing sub-funding, but we must be able to clearly track the deliverables and proceeding.
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If we are not able track internally the deliverables/timing, we can't do it with external organizations.
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Salaries are not public, because not everyone is comfortable with it.
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Not even Karen have access to the detailed budget.
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There's an issue in planning, because there's no clear vision on resource allocation.
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As note, is not possible to does sub-funding without total transparency on where the money are ending up.
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How much mobile development are we going to do?
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It's important to know, also for external resources that could come, which would be the costs for all the needed hours/week.
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Now the timesheet are sent to Melissa, it would be nice to have a time/activity reporting facility to fill out the timesheet in accordance with the contracts trough a web application.
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We are maintaining a cash reserve of about $300k .
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We may also introduce a sort of Bounty program (community driven) to fund specific fixes and/or specific features, much like Horde is doing.
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We should think to make fundraising campaigns for specific goals .
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Idea to have some kind of additional revenues for services such as training.
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Training still have some complexity in doing it, spending a lot of time to get the project funded. And now the training is done by the developer.
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There should be some need to have some more fundraising effort on Tor, given only Karen is working on it, but EFF does spend between something between 5-510% just for fundraising (source to be checked). |