A quick update: I've extended the campaign for 10 additional days (akin to what we did last year), so that we can try to boost it by using some results from Randa. I'm preparing a dot story, please keep spreading.
Cheers, Sandro On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Sandro Andrade <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Sandro, >> >> going to the fundraiser website, I noticed that it is out of date: >> >> It still talks about Randa 2016 being in the future. Shouldn't it be >> updated, >> >> and instead of talking about what we _will_ do there, talk about what >> _has been done_ >> >> there, and than changing the message to "If you want us to be able to >> continue doing >> >> such great things, please donate to fund future meetings." >> > > Thanks for reporting, I've now updated the webpage. > > >> >> It's not much of a surprise to me that a campaign focused on funding a >> specific >> >> meeting loses drive after that specific meeting is over. The meeting >> happened, so >> >> obviously we had enough money to do it, now why donate more for it? >> >> If we want the fundraiser to still be engaging, we have to change the >> message. >> > > While I agree this may demotivate some donors, I'm quite conviced the > reason for not > reaching the goal isn't the one you pointed out. We've run the campaign > before Randa > dates in last years and we always experience the same fast "audience > drain" effect, for > a number of reasons I'd be happy to discuss afterwards. > > Cheers, > Sandro > > >> Cheers, >> >> Thomas >> >> >> >> On 04.07.2016 16:42, Sandro Andrade wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> We've reached the last week for Randa Meetings 2016 fundraising [1] >>> and we're completely behind the goal :( That's mostly because our >>> audience depletes rapidly after some weeks and we lack some >>> promotional device (and man-power/energy) to keep pushing it forward. >>> >>> Now we need to boost its last breath, for example by: >>> >>> - Writing a nice blog post, everyone is welcome to do that and even >>> more for those of you who holds a quite popular blog. That's proven to >>> be quite effective lately. >>> - Promoting the campaign in regions other than Europe by translating >>> and spreading. >>> - If you were in Randa, telling what you achieved and call for donations. >>> - Doing anything else you feel could help .. >>> >>> [1] https://www.kde.org/fundraisers/randameetings2016/ >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -- >>> Sandro >>> _______________________________________________ >>> kde-community mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kde-community mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > > >
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