Re: Friends of GNOME campaign

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Bryen M Yunashko <a11yrocks bryen com> wrote:

>
> Website/infrastructure campaign.
> One resource that many GNOME users and contributors take for granted
> are the websites and infrastructure that support the GNOME project in
> various way. In the marketing meeting we had back in October it was
> stated that the website/infrastructure was not in ideal shape
> (http://goo.gl/eB0um). I know that the past months great progress have
> been made with the websites (foundation website migration to new
> design).
>

I'm not sure this would be effective for a campaign.  Yes you raise
valid points about why we could use additional funds to cover
infrastructure, but from a human-appeal POV, I don't think a campaign
about web infrastructure is going to make someone dig into their pockets
to donate, unless they happen to be close to GNOME already.  This
campaign would leave out those who might donate out of a basic human
appeal.

A few years ago when I ran a survey, most donors were close to the project and wanted to contribute but did not have either time or skills. The sys admin campaign was definitely a success.

Stormy