Re: Friends of GNOME September data

["Guy Lunardi" <glunardi novell com>]

All,

some really interesting ideas on this site (and the cause is great too,
feel free to donate):
http://www.maasaimarathon.com/

The sponsoring idea is neat
http://www.maasaimarathon.com/content/sponsor/
and the pages are generally well put together.

If we could come up with a similar goal, I would love to see the
Foundation do something similar. 

Create a Team, have the individuals in the team help write bios and
create small videos...

Maybe running a marathon is a bit outside the scope of what our people
can do but maybe we could apply this idea on a hackfest basis for
example or for Guadec.

After looking at the Friends of GNOME monthly setup, I started looking
around for potential another online donation management service.
Amazon's Simple Pay Donations service (one-time) is great. The Amazon
Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) while still not perfect, a bit
expensive, seems more flexible than Paypal though.

To summarize:
 a) If we (more clever than me) come up with a Team + members concept
for GNOME, I will be happy to help put the pages together. Ideas?
 b) Should we consider offering Amazon as a payment service for Friends
of GNOME (side by side or replace Paypal)?

Best regards,
-Guy


On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 12:09 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
> The September data is posted:
> http://live.gnome.org/action/AttachFile/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/FriendsOfGNOME?action=AttachFile
>
> We raised $1720 in September (up from $1212 in August) for a total of
> $23,415 since January 1, 2009. 
>
> We didn't have any new subscribers in August. (But we have had a
> couple already in October - we need to market though if we are going
> to reach our goal of 10 new subscribers a month!)
>
> Stormy
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>
> wrote:
>         The August data is posted:
>         http://live.gnome.org/action/AttachFile/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/FriendsOfGNOME?action=AttachFile
>         
>         We raised $1212 in August for a total of $21,695 since January
>         1, 2009. 
>         
>         Subscriptions held steady. (And thanks to Guy and Jaap you can
>         now specify your monthly amount!)
>         
>         I posted some of the graphs on the Foundation blog:
>         http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/09/05/friends-of-gnome-august-2009-update/
>         
>         Stormy
>         
>         On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Stormy Peters
>         <stormy gnome org> wrote:
>                 The July data is posted:
>                 
> http://live.gnome.org/action/AttachFile/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/FriendsOfGNOME?action=AttachFile
>                 
>                 Great news:
>                  * We passed the $20,000 mark which was our original
>                 goal for all of 2009!
>                 
>                 Good news:
>                  * July 2009 is much better than all other July's in
>                 documented history.
>                 
>                 OK news:
>                  * Numbers held steady with June.
>                 
>                 Stormy
>