Re: [Tails-project] Donation for Tails development

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Author: Gregory Gerrein
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To: sajolida
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Subject: Re: [Tails-project] Donation for Tails development
Thanks Sajolida,
Fair enough. If there's anything else I can do to help, or if you would
like to change my proposal in some way to better fit your vision, let me
know and I'll see what I can do.

Best regards,
Greg

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:31 PM, sajolida <sajolida@???> wrote:
>
> Gregory Gerrein:
> > Hi Sajolida,
> > Thanks for your quick response. Our idea was to create a platform that
> > would facilitate donations to open source projects like Tails. The
> > original idea is we would design a t-shirt (with your approval and design
> > feedback), and on the back of the shirt would have bitcoin QR donation
> > codes to your project. It would also additionally have a QR url to a
> > donation portal we would set up that would allow for other types of
> > donations (credit card, pay pal). We will be writing an iOS and Android
> > app that can be used in conjunction with this (all of the code to our
> apps
> > and backend platforms will be open sourced). So to answer your
> questions:
> >
> > - We would sell and ship the t-shirts online.
> > - Our original idea was that we would earn money on the t-shirt sales,
> and
> > you would earn money via the donations. We can distribute revenue
> > differently if you think this is not equitable.
> >
> > In short, this is a new venture, and we are not tied to any ideas too
> > tightly. We have reached out to only a few platforms so far, and have
> > gotten buy-in from Counterparty (http://counterparty.io) so far. I
> > personally feel that Tails and Counterparty are two of the most important
> > projects going on to date. In the end, we just want to raise money for
> > projects like Tails, while also selling some t-shirts on our end.
> > Whichever revenue agreement we come to, I would like it to be transparent
> > to all communities involved, so no one feels like something inappropriate
> > or unfair is happening.
> >
> > Please, feel free to propose anything different than what I have
> > presented. I'd be more than happy to work on a solution that you feel
> > works out best for your project and community.
>
> Cool, I understand better your proposal. I added that info to our ticket
> about t-shirts: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7052.
>
> But keep in mind that we had other more abstract and political issues
> about making and selling t-shirts in the first place. So don't expect
> any quick answer from us. Even if your proposal changes our initial idea
> quite a bit in the sense that we wouldn't have to deal ourselves with
> the selling and shipping of those t-shirts which looks interesting to me
> at least.
>
> --
> sajolida
>