Re: Fundraising Progress

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/28/2009 07:20 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Hey Shaun,
> >
> > Le mardi 28 avril 2009, à 16:13 -0500, Shaun McCance a écrit :
> > > Owen sent an email to the list a short while back about a
> > > FoG fundraising drive for a sysadmin:
> > >
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-April/msg00025.html
> > >
> > > There have been occasional conversations on IRC about having
> > > a progress meter we could put on our web sites. I know some
> > > other people have been in talks about this. But I decided
> > > to JFDI.
> > >
> > > http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/fog/index.html
> >
> > Cool. As you saw on IRC, Andreas did a mockup which is based on monthly
> > subscribers (instead of total amount of money) -- this is what we were
> > planning to do. We can probably do some mix of the two (assuming we can
> > do it in a non-ugly way ;-)), though, since both views are interesting.
> Can't we do one of them first, and the other one after?
> Say we run one campaign for 3 months (or something) and pimp that really
> hard, and then do the same with the other one for the following 3 months.

Heh, funny that you say that.  I wrote to board list today:

I suggest:

  - We set our goal to fully funding a sysadmin on subscriptions (say, by 
next year.  So aiming for 360).

  - 90 a quarter.  Count number of new subscribers.  If we reach our goal 
before the three month period, we take the ruler down and add a Thank You note 
for the rest of the quarter.  Like Wikipedia does.

  - May want to add a note like "Be the first Friend of GNOME today!" every day.

behdad



> Shaun: Would you like to hack together some code based on the X number
> of donors as well?
> svg here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/gnome-pledge-banner.svg
> (or do we need one with 90 people on it and make it run for 90 days?)
>
> Hats of to Shaun for JFDI, we need more of that!
> - Andreas
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