[CREATE] LGM2010: trip sponsoring and other financial issues

[Jon Phillips]

Agree and was going to write that myself. Definitely successful! Yes,
I would have had more energy but have had some personal stuff taking
loads of my extra time.

I'm excited to get more people involved and think with more planning,
people, energy, and a better economy, we can raise more money next
year. Plus, I think having OSP help, and getting some of that EU arts
money, will really really help!

Cheers!

Jon

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Dave Neary <dneary at free.fr> wrote:
> 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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