Hi,
I am currently reading the interview with Jimmy (http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/07/28/1351230.shtml?tid=146&...) and his nice answers. In particular
"One of the reasons I was excited to be asked by Roblimo to do this interview is that the slashdot community in particular has been so generous to us in the past."
is nice and shortly after that follows the "donate money" and "what we use the money for" links. Following the first link I would like to suggest changing two things:
* there still is a link to Brion Vibbers notebook fund at the very end of the page. Don't get me wrong, Brion deserves a lot more money than he probably gets through donations, but linking to a page which seems to be outdated doesn't look good to me.
* the fundraising page doesn't contain information how much money we are aiming for. A potential donator would just see that we have ~20 K$ on our account and many probably will think "well, they probably have enough money".
Sure, there is some information on the meta page ([[m:What_we_use_the_money_for]]), but the page takes ~10 sec to load, there is a lot of text and the information what we are aiming for is at the end of the text.
IMHO it would make sense to add next to the current numbers that we are aiming for 50 K$ - 100 K$ money which we would like to spend on hardware this year.
best regards, Marco
Marco Krohn wrote:
the fundraising page doesn't contain information how much money we are aiming for. A potential donator would just see that we have ~20 K$ on our account and many probably will think "well, they probably have enough money".
A certain amount should be identified as a contingency reserve. Hardware is not consistent when it comes to giving an advance warning of its impending death. If it is a key item there may not otherwise be time to seek the needed funding; immediate replacement would be essential. Thus, establishing a contingency reserve at twice the replacement cost of the most expensive single piece of hardware would be prudent.
Ec
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Marco Krohn wrote:
the fundraising page doesn't contain information how much money we are aiming for. A potential donator would just see that we have ~20 K$ on our account and many probably will think "well, they probably have enough money".
A certain amount should be identified as a contingency reserve. Hardware is not consistent when it comes to giving an advance warning of its impending death. If it is a key item there may not otherwise be time to seek the needed funding; immediate replacement would be essential. Thus, establishing a contingency reserve at twice the replacement cost of the most expensive single piece of hardware would be prudent.
Ec
Why not having a dynamic picture looking like:
WikiPediaThon
0$ 30k$ 100K$ [OOOOoooooo......................]
Where: O is provision o achieved . still needed
Marco Krohn wrote:
Hi,
I am currently reading the interview with Jimmy (http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/07/28/1351230.shtml?tid=146&...) and his nice answers. In particular
"One of the reasons I was excited to be asked by Roblimo to do this interview is that the slashdot community in particular has been so generous to us in the past."
is nice and shortly after that follows the "donate money" and "what we use the money for" links. Following the first link I would like to suggest changing two things:
- there still is a link to Brion Vibbers notebook fund at the very end of the
page. Don't get me wrong, Brion deserves a lot more money than he probably gets through donations, but linking to a page which seems to be outdated doesn't look good to me.
This is a valid comment. And this is planned.
ant
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