Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

[Max <mhuang gnome org>]

Hi

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com> wrote:

On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 23:17 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote:
> On 2014-06-16 16:25, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've compiled a list of email addresses of donors of the last 365 days.
> > I suggest writing an email to those donors, thanking them for their
> > support,
> > inviting them to GUADEC, telling them what we've done so far.
> >
> > Any volunteer for drafting such an email?
>
> This is a great idea! The text can be pretty short. Here's a possible
> draft, please improve and correct:

Great text, have some minor comments.

> Dear GNOME supporter,
>
> Thank you so much for your financial support of GNOME in the past year.
> We wanted to check in with you and let you know that your money has made
> a big difference in helping the GNOME Foundation run and support our
> community in their efforts to make GNOME great.

Replace "money" with "donation"?

> To point out some highlights from the past year:
>
> * We held our first ever West Coast Hackfest
> * GNOME.Asia in Beijing was very successful (with FIXME attendees and
> FIXME speakers)

with 355 attendees and  46 speakers

^^

Will ask the organizers about the exact numbers.

> * We released GNOME 3.12 (check out the cool video FIXME link)
> * We cheered as Allan Day won the award for best individual contributor
> for the UK Open Source Awards, and our accessibility team received an
> honorable mention for the Chris Nicol prize.

Thanks for mention this!

> * We gained two new advisory board members (thanks, Private Internet
> Access and Linux Foundation!)
> * We hosted Pitivi's fundraising campaign (there's still time to donate!
> FIXME link)
>
> We've also banded together to deal with the administrative crisis caused
> by the success of our popular Outreach Program for Women (we're still
> working on it but are in much better shape).
>

I think this section about this issue could be improved or removed,
"administrative crisis" is a very strong wording.

Also to my knowledge the foundation have not yet publicized information
about this beside on the wiki (which is widely not read by the general
public).

> We hope you will consider coming to Strasbourg and joining the fun as we
> get together for GUADEC 2014 on July 26-August 1. We'll be talking about
> and working on a lot of exciting things. And we'd love to have you
> there.

Remove "And"?

> > FWIW: Allan and I were thinking about writing the donors of the last 3
> > months or
> > so in order to thank them for enabling us to have a great event in
> > China. Maybe
> > with some photos of people that we sponsored to go and some reports.
> > By now, I think it's a bit too late, but maybe someone else doesn't
> > and wants to
> > get it done.

This sounds as a really great idea, I definitely think the foundation should write
something about the GNOME Asia Summit 2014. Max recently wrote a great blogpost [1]
about the event, I really recommend everyone to check it out .

1http://sakananote2english.blogspot.tw/2014/06/gnomeasia-summit-2014.html

^^ Thanks

 

> I think at this point lumping that in with this email makes the most
> sense. But we should do these quarterly :)

Agree.

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