[D-Space] Sponsorship

[Paul Campbell]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Alex King wrote:
> I'm thinking about the scope for sponsorship... and wanting feedback 
> from people about what they think.
> 
> Here is what I am thinking a sponsorship plan could look like:
> 
> A "sponsor" member could be the same cost level as a "supporting" member 
> - i.e., $40 per month/ $480 per year.  This is pretty cheap IMO for 
> sponsorship if we are successful.  I would only have a single level of 
> sponsorship, and would go for as many sponsors as I could get.

I think this is a great idea - probably we should wait until we have ourselves 
incorporated and have out non-profit/charity status in place though

I think that we need to make sure that we can pay our basic bills from normal 
memberships - sponsorships can be used to purchase new tools - things we can't 
find from donations. I may be better to encourage places like Jaycar/DS (and 
Mitre10/Bunnings) may be better off giving us stuff rather than money 

I'm a little leery of trying to get money out of schools - I'd rather engage on 
a different level: provide space and tools, maybe even some classes - I'd love 
to see the kids building robots fabbing stuff on the mendel - we can ask for 
donations 

	Paul