[CREATE] Ramping up the campaign for LGM

[Igor Novikov]

Hi Dave,

We have substituted Google Ads by LGM donation banner on all pages of our
project site (http://sk1project.org)
Of course, our project is not such popular as Inkscape (we have ~15000
unique visitors per month only)
but I hope this will be helpfull.

Regards,

Igor Novikov,
sK1 Project
http://sk1project.org

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Dave Neary <dneary at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have had some good coverage and the start of a viral effect around
> the fundraiser this week, but I think the campaign would benefit
> enormously from having other developers from the various projects saying
> why the conference is important to you. This week, it has mostly been
> myself and Jon pushing the fundraiser, and donors doing blog posts with
> the badge saying that they donated.
>
> Of course the campaign is on the GIMP, Scribus, Open Clipart and Krita
> home pages, but it isn't yet on inkscape.org, and the logo on lgm.org
> doesn't match the one used everywhere else. I would have liked custom
> LGM artwork for the campaign, but at the end of the daym the pledgie
> padge is good, integrates that thermometer idea, and I think we should
> use it everywhere.
>
> Some highlights from the first week of the campaign:
> An article on linux.com about the conference and the fundraiser
> An interview with LUG Radio which was released earlier this week
> A $1,000 donation from Michael Tiemann (I contacted Michael to ask him
> to consider donating)
> An overwhelming 170+ donations so far
> An average of $700 per day raised (we need to get this higher)
>
>
> We are now at almost $7,000 raised, an extraordinary success, but a long
> way from our target. Getting to the target needs the developers who will
> benefit from this community support to show that they're 100% behind the
> campaign.
>
> If we can excite people about this campaign in the final week, I believe
> we could hockey-stick, and surpass our target. If we don't get a second
> wind, we're likely going to taper out to a final campaign total of
> $10,000 to $12,000.
>
> So, please, please, I would like to see lots of blog entries about past
> LGM and GIMPCon meetings over the weekend, linking to the campaign. I
> like the model of the LGM stories I have been doing - just link to the
> campaign, and write about what you have gotten out of the campaign
> previously, what you hope to get out of it this year, the key people who
> need to be there for that - we need to humanise this, and not have it be
> one organiser writing a begging letter.
>
> Please don't let me down.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Neary
> dneary at free.fr
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