Budget for 2013-(early 2014)

[mdk]

Hi All,

I have a provincial budget for the coming year, I think we need to do some selective fundraising to get more, but the tpf will be giving us:

Conference booths (YAPC, OSCON, etc...) - $2,250

• $1,000 for 200 shirts.
• $250 for design costs.
• $250 for shipping costs.
• $500 for handouts
• $250 for printing

Marketing Committee - $4,000

• T-shirts
• Printed material for FOSDEM
• Other printed material
• Leaflets for students

So I need a starting plan and some ideas. I personally want to use as much of this money to start moving out of the standard areas. We can consider using Google, Facebook and traditional magazine advertising - we need to ensure there is a message going to other conferences by finding people who are attending them and getting them to take leaflets/stickers etc.

Is there any room for asking people to use those free vouchers from Google for linking to Perl resources until they are used up?

I look forward to hearing the suggestions. The budget is minimal at the moment, but I am sure if we get a really great idea that there is room for negotiation inside the org.