Hi Dave, We have substituted Google Ads by LGM donation banner on all pages of our project site (http://sk1project.org) Of course, our project is not such popular as Inkscape (we have ~15000 unique visitors per month only) but I hope this will be helpfull.
Regards, Igor Novikov, sK1 Project http://sk1project.org On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We have had some good coverage and the start of a viral effect around > the fundraiser this week, but I think the campaign would benefit > enormously from having other developers from the various projects saying > why the conference is important to you. This week, it has mostly been > myself and Jon pushing the fundraiser, and donors doing blog posts with > the badge saying that they donated. > > Of course the campaign is on the GIMP, Scribus, Open Clipart and Krita > home pages, but it isn't yet on inkscape.org, and the logo on lgm.org > doesn't match the one used everywhere else. I would have liked custom > LGM artwork for the campaign, but at the end of the daym the pledgie > padge is good, integrates that thermometer idea, and I think we should > use it everywhere. > > Some highlights from the first week of the campaign: > An article on linux.com about the conference and the fundraiser > An interview with LUG Radio which was released earlier this week > A $1,000 donation from Michael Tiemann (I contacted Michael to ask him > to consider donating) > An overwhelming 170+ donations so far > An average of $700 per day raised (we need to get this higher) > > > We are now at almost $7,000 raised, an extraordinary success, but a long > way from our target. Getting to the target needs the developers who will > benefit from this community support to show that they're 100% behind the > campaign. > > If we can excite people about this campaign in the final week, I believe > we could hockey-stick, and surpass our target. If we don't get a second > wind, we're likely going to taper out to a final campaign total of > $10,000 to $12,000. > > So, please, please, I would like to see lots of blog entries about past > LGM and GIMPCon meetings over the weekend, linking to the campaign. I > like the model of the LGM stories I have been doing - just link to the > campaign, and write about what you have gotten out of the campaign > previously, what you hope to get out of it this year, the key people who > need to be there for that - we need to humanise this, and not have it be > one organiser writing a begging letter. > > Please don't let me down. > > Cheers, > Dave. > -- > Dave Neary > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45 > Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create >
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