http://stormyscorner.com/2009/04/hackfests-fundraising-and-the-economy.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:13:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/04/hackfests-fundraising-and-the-economy.html/comment-page-1#comment-738 stormy Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:27:35 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/04/hackfests-fundraising-and-the-economy.html#comment-738 Thanks, Paul! The thermometer/ruler idea has come up a couple of times in IRC, the marketing list and the last adboard meeting. I think we just need to get all of them and some artist and programmer types together! You are right that trying to show the things we want to spend money on is a bit difficult as it all depends on how much money we get, when we get it and who steps up with ideas and energy to make it happen. But we could definitely come up with some milestones. FYI, Canonical did offer matching funds for friends in the context of raising money for a sys admin. I think you are right, it would be good to have a campaign to reach out beyond the people we normally talk to. I was also thinking that perhaps we should have a "subscribe by email" box that subscribed people to gnome-announce, so that people unfamiliar with mailing lists could still sign up to get news. Thanks, Paul!
The thermometer/ruler idea has come up a couple of times in IRC, the marketing list and the last adboard meeting. I think we just need to get all of them and some artist and programmer types together! You are right that trying to show the things we want to spend money on is a bit difficult as it all depends on how much money we get, when we get it and who steps up with ideas and energy to make it happen. But we could definitely come up with some milestones.
FYI, Canonical did offer matching funds for friends in the context of raising money for a sys admin.
I think you are right, it would be good to have a campaign to reach out beyond the people we normally talk to. I was also thinking that perhaps we should have a “subscribe by email” box that subscribed people to gnome-announce, so that people unfamiliar with mailing lists could still sign up to get news.

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/04/hackfests-fundraising-and-the-economy.html/comment-page-1#comment-737 Paul Cutler Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:31:03 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/04/hackfests-fundraising-and-the-economy.html#comment-737 Stormy, Shaun McCance brought up an interesting idea the other day in IRC. On the Friends of GNOME page, what if we had a thermometer showing a goal of and how much has been raised against it - as one gets full, put up another goal. Now I know the Friends of GNOME money isn't necessarily tied to a specific goal or hackfest - but I think people respond to goals rather than open ended requests. Another idea I had, being a big listener and supporter of Public Radio, is having campaign drive times. What if we had 2-3 times a year where we took 7 or 10 days, and did some marketing against it as a fundraising campaign. Would any of GNOME's corporate sponsors maybe do matching funds? Maybe a specific campaign against a specific goal, a hackfest or GUADEC, or something else that supports GNOME (a sysadmin?). I thought it was interesting you brought up the FSF as well - I think their Defective by Design campaign, through email marketing and fundraising has been very successful. Here's a campaign that's tied to the organizations purpose, but still different enough that people who might not identify themselves as FSF supporter do support them because of their anti-DRM efforts. Thanks for the blog post - now you've got my head spinnign thinking about it. Mission accomplished. Stormy,
Shaun McCance brought up an interesting idea the other day in IRC.
On the Friends of GNOME page, what if we had a thermometer showing a goal of and how much has been raised against it – as one gets full, put up another goal.
Now I know the Friends of GNOME money isn’t necessarily tied to a specific goal or hackfest – but I think people respond to goals rather than open ended requests.
Another idea I had, being a big listener and supporter of Public Radio, is having campaign drive times. What if we had 2-3 times a year where we took 7 or 10 days, and did some marketing against it as a fundraising campaign. Would any of GNOME’s corporate sponsors maybe do matching funds? Maybe a specific campaign against a specific goal, a hackfest or GUADEC, or something else that supports GNOME (a sysadmin?).
I thought it was interesting you brought up the FSF as well – I think their Defective by Design campaign, through email marketing and fundraising has been very successful. Here’s a campaign that’s tied to the organizations purpose, but still different enough that people who might not identify themselves as FSF supporter do support them because of their anti-DRM efforts.
Thanks for the blog post – now you’ve got my head spinnign thinking about it. Mission accomplished.

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