Thread: Booth swag for the absentee enthusiast

I keep hearing about all of this really cool booth swag.  Due to the
uncertainty in the demands of my work schedule, I can't attend some of
the larger conventions featuring PostgreSQL.

Even thought I can't attend, I would still like to offer my (monetary)
support and hopefully get some of this cool complimentary booth swag
in the process.

Is there any provision for persons like me?

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Richard,

> Is there any provision for persons like me?

We really need to do CafePress and other online stores.  Volunteers to set
this up?

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--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL
San Francisco

On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> We really need to do CafePress and other online stores.  Volunteers
> to set
> this up?

Happy to help!  I can get accounts going with the various on-line
stores, if that is agreeable.

On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Christophe wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> We really need to do CafePress and other online stores.
>> Volunteers to set
>> this up?
>
> Happy to help!  I can get accounts going with the various on-line
> stores, if that is agreeable.


Did this ever happen?
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Decibel! wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Christophe wrote:
>> On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> We really need to do CafePress and other online stores.  Volunteers
>>> to set
>>> this up?
>>
>> Happy to help!  I can get accounts going with the various on-line
>> stores, if that is agreeable.
>
>
> Did this ever happen?

Nope, and I realized that there is a problem with it.  Money we make
through cafepress etc. is "unrelated business income", so what would
need to happen is that someone would have to receive the money
*personally* then donate it to SPI and deal with the taxes.

Also, for our donation status, it's important that we not offer the same
t-shirt design on cafepress that we do for donations at conferences.
Otherwise the t-shirts at conferences become a sale and we have to pay
tax on them.

--Josh

On Aug 22, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Money we make through cafepress etc. is "unrelated business
> income", so what would need to happen is that someone would have to
> receive the money *personally* then donate it to SPI and deal with
> the taxes.

My consulting company could, perhaps, do that by way of corporate
sponsorship.  If that's intriguing, let's discuss it.

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:15:57 -0700
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:

> > Did this ever happen?
>
> Nope, and I realized that there is a problem with it.  Money we make
> through cafepress etc. is "unrelated business income", so what would
> need to happen is that someone would have to receive the money
> *personally* then donate it to SPI and deal with the taxes.

PgUS will have a store, I assume PgEU will as well but I can not speak
for them.

Joshua D. Drake

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Josh,

> PgUS will have a store, I assume PgEU will as well but I can not speak
> for them.

You need to talk to your tax accountant about this then.  There are special
rules around 501(c)3s selling things.

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PostgreSQL
San Francisco

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Josh,
>
>> PgUS will have a store, I assume PgEU will as well but I can not speak
>> for them.
>
> You need to talk to your tax accountant about this then.  There are special
> rules around 501(c)3s selling things.

Already have :)

Joshua D. Drake

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:

> Also, for our donation status, it's important that we not offer the same
> t-shirt design on cafepress that we do for donations at conferences.
> Otherwise the t-shirts at conferences become a sale and we have to pay tax
> on them.

Is there a way to use the convention adopted by Public Television?:
"With a donation of $XX.XX we will send you a complimentary YYYY."

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Richard Broersma Jr.

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Richard Broersma wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> Also, for our donation status, it's important that we not offer the same
>> t-shirt design on cafepress that we do for donations at conferences.
>> Otherwise the t-shirts at conferences become a sale and we have to pay tax
>> on them.
>
> Is there a way to use the convention adopted by Public Television?:
> "With a donation of $XX.XX we will send you a complimentary YYYY."
>

That's what we do now.  The issue is that we can't do that on, say,
CafePress, which is a direct commercial sale.  That doesn't mean that we
can't have t-shirts on CafePress ... they just need to be a different
design.

Ideally, we'd mail out t-shirts to donors personally as donation
premiums, and raise a lot of money that way.  However, I don't know that
anyone in our community currrently has the manpower to do this.

--Josh