Hi all! I'd like to propose an idea how to resolve financial issues for LGM2010. As you can notice Pledgie donation campaign for LGM in this year was not successful. So we can suppose that next year will not be better. But there is another way to collect money for LGM2010. In this year sK1 Project has sponsored LGM trip for 3 persons. It was possible due to AdSense used on my sites (not <a href="http://sk1project.org" target="_blank">sk1project.org</a> only). So I would like to propose similar way to resolve LGM financial support issue. Of course ads on LGM site only cannot cover all conference expenses. So it would be great if all LGM participators join efforts in next LGM edition preparing. This could be organized by following way: each project provides for LGM small advertisement place on main page of project site. Then LGM creates individual advertisement code for each project (according to site design and so on) which will be translated during this year. Thus LGM can collect required amount of money to support next edition including participators trip sponsoring. Here is ad example: <a href="http://sk1project.org/images/ad_example.png" target="_blank">http://sk1project.org/images/ad_example.png</a> Such ad is not aggressive and doesn't break site design. So it's something like donation banner but I think such Ad Network should be more effective way than regular donations. Of course the result depends on major open source graphics projects: Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender etc. because income from small projects will be symbolic (our sK1 Project is a middle size advertisement platform - after first public sK1 release we got additional visitors on our site and actually we have ~2000-3000 visits per day). Using my experience I can evaluate that daily income of such Ad Network can be ~50-100 USD per day. Our project can help in technical issues of such Ad Network, but financial management and common issues should be under LGM control. Trip sponsoring is highly important for LGM future. We should involve new projects and participators otherwise LGM will be something like "oneman show". So it would be great to know community opinion concerning this issue! Regards, Igor Novikov sK1 Project <a href="http://sk1project.org" target="_blank">http://sk1project.org</a>