On Mar 24, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
I think in general, the best place to look is foundations with
local roots. I've had the idea for a while to get the Langlois Foundation to
underwrite a pd-conf in Montreal. I don't know of any locally-focussed
foundations in New York but I bet they exist... (something like Rockefeller
probably wouldn't jump for this since they don't focus on local events
around New York as far as I know.)
and then perhaps for the application look to build a group of
sponsors who contribute in-kind support.
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:10:16AM -0800, Hans-Christoph Steiner
wrote:On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, geiger wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Its been a while since pd~conf and I think we are long overdue for another. I have recently started a job at Polytechnic
University in downtown Brooklyn (http://poly.edu I work at http:// idmi.poly.edu ), and I can host conferences here for free, and the dorms are
available for US$35/night when the students are out of session. This
place has a lot to offer in terms of facilities: a 350 seat auditorium,
lecture halls, a big plaza for art projects, a 9-screen/9-computer hall
with multi-channel sound where we are currently developing software so that it can be used as one OpenGL space, one video screen, or a 9- screen laptop jam.The problem in the U.S. is that there are very few grants for this kind of thing, so it would probably be hard to get grants to fund everyone's travel and hotels like the IEM folks did so amazingly. The standard way that conferences fund themselves in the U.S. is by charging a conference fee. Since this is about free software, it would be nice to have the conference free too.
Let's start the process now and get some ideas flowing, and
maybe we can come up with something.Hi,
Great initiative, my proposal for funding is the one I already
expressed in our discussion about donations. We get a bank account and a "Donate" button on the puredata web site.Maybe we should calculate the costs for such an event in advance and when we are about to reach the amount, we organize a conference.
Although this model didn't find much appreciation back then, I still think it is a fair use of the collected money on a project where so many individuals are involved.
I know that you didn't like this idea, but I have no experience
in fund raising, so collecting donations is the only thing that comes to my mind right now.I think this is a great idea, we just need to discuss how to
handle it. That's the tricky part. This could make it easy, we could just
say that all funds donated to Pd go to running the pd~conf. Then we don't
have to figure out how to make more fine grained decisions as a group
(tough thing to do...). Then it doesn't really matter where the group is based.So its sounds like a Verein is very easy to start in Austria and
Germany, does it provide tax-free status? The next question is whether we
can use tax-free money from the EU to fund a conference outside of the EU
without paying taxes.Another approach is to have who ever is planning the next pd~conf
take control of the donations under the guise of whatever organization
that they are working for. I know Alexandre has talked about hosting
pd~conf at artengine in Ottawa, CA. They have non-profit status, so they
could accept donations tax-free (AFAIK). As for Brooklyn, I could do it
as part of Polytechnic University if that gives us tax-free status, or
another arts org that am affiliated with in NYC (there are a couple).Then the last thing is, I don't think we are really going to get
so many donations. I've had my donate button up for years and I think I've received around US$250 in total..hc
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