Re: Friends of GNOME data

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

Hi Jaap,

Thanks so much! I was very worried that no one else had reviewed the
spreadsheet and I know it's easy to makes mistakes.

On 6/2/09, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
> 1) In May we received $7,341 and not $6,883. So even better

Yeah!

> * Finalized the DCOUNT and DSUM formulas for the rest of 2009. 2010
> should be pretty simple to do now because you can copy paste 2009 and
> make a few small changes with find and replace

Thanks!

> 2) We can pay less at paypal
>
> Paypal is giving a lower rate to 501 (c)3 non profits. They charge
> 2.2% + 0.30$ per transaction for these organisations
> See:
> https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing/merchant/PayPalNonProfits-outside#pricing

Rosanna or I will look into that immediately.

> 3) How come that in February the number of Monthly donors went down
> from 51 to 10? Seems really weird. Did many people decide they did not
> want to be a monthly donor?

When we first started the subscriber program, the subscription was for
one month instead of ongoing. We caught that in February when the
second round of payments should have come in. I emailed everyone and
most people resubscribed later.
> 4) The gnome foundation blog should in my opinion have a "Support GNOME"
> badge

Good idea. I'll add that to my list for next week. (Or as soon as I
have a decent network connection.)

Thanks again for reviewing the spreadsheet and catching all this.

Stormy
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 18:24, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> > The new data is on the wiki. May was an awesome month!
> >
> > Behdad is blogging about it this week.
> >
> > Stormy
> >
> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> > > I just realized that my Friends of GNOME update from last month never
> > > went
> > > through to the list.
> > >
> > > So I put this month's update in the wiki and on the Foundation blog.
> > >
> > > I created a Friends of GNOME wiki page to track tasks and goals:
> > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/FriendsOfGNOME
> > >
> > > Here's the raw data from Friends of GNOME donations in a spreadsheet:
> > >
> > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/FriendsOfGNOME?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=donations-metrics.ods
> > >
> > > I posted a couple of the graphs on the Foundation blog:
> > > http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/05/04/friends-of-gnome-update/
> > >
> > > Stormy
> >
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