[CREATE] LGM2010: trip sponsoring and other financial issues

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

Igor Novikov wrote:
> As you can notice Pledgie donation campaign for LGM in this year was not
> successful.

Not successful? By what measure?

We didn't raise $15,000 if that's what you mean, but raising over $7,000
in this climate was phenomenal. Especially since (to me looking in) it
seemed like the only person who cared about promoting the campaign was Jon.

We didn't get even a fraction of the visibility we had last year when we
had a nice logo & link to the campaign on the front page of all the
major projects. This year, that didn't happen, and even on the front
page of the event site, the link to the campaign was pretty discrete.

> So we can suppose that next year will not be better.

Again, I disagree.

Fundraising campaigns depend on the people supporting them and putting
time & effort into raising funds. More enthusiastic people next year
will make for a more successful fundraiser.

One way to get people involved? If we could have a way for people to
record how much money they personally raised, and have a competition
among fundraisers, that could work. How about "raise half the money for
your ticket from personal referrals"?

> In this year sK1 Project has sponsored LGM trip for 3 persons. It was
> possible due to AdSense used on my sites (not sk1project.org
> <http://sk1project.org> 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.

Many projects, including the GIMP, have conditions associated with
donated bandwidth & hosting, which include "no ads".

You would have to evaluate, for each of these sites, whether adsense
revenues would outweigh hosting costs.

Cheers,
Dave.

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