Have you wanted to participate in something for IxDA, but haven't felt like you could devote a lot of time?
This might be an interesting initiative for you. We are planning to hold a fundraiser by the end of June to support the revamp of the ixda.org infrastructure. Our growth has been amazing over the past few years, and our current infrastructure is barely able to support our existing membership. IxDA has chosen Drupal as the technology framework for our next-generation infrastructure. The Drupal framework will allow the IxDA community to grow and thrive with improved digital communications capabilities, local group mini-sites, and easier sharing of content and display of members' personality. However, we cannot build the new website ourselves and deliver it in a reasonable timeframe. One aspect of IxDA that the community appreciates the most is the fact that there is no barrier to entry with IxDA. IxDA is an entirely volunteer-supported organization that requires no dues from its members. As an organization operating without any membership income, we rely on fundraising efforts (which we haven't held since 2007) as well as revenue-generating events like our annual Interaction conference to support initiatives that require money to succeed. We feel this is a worthy cause to request support for. We need a core group to help plan and support this. If you have experience with fundraising, or have any interesting ideas for how to approach it, let me know off line and we can get started! Thanks! Janna DeVylder President, IxDA ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
