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Living Room / Re: Thinking about a DonationCoder.com fundraising thing.. opinions wanted
« Last post by momonan on October 10, 2005, 07:19 AM »The beauty of cafepress is that you give them the design and the price you want to charge for an item. Then members of DCC can buy it, knowing that a portion of the price will be returned to DCC. For example, a small magnet is listed at $2.49. If it were listed at $4, DCC would be sent the difference. Since the basic service is free, there would be no DCC outlay of funds, and it could be a source of additional revenue. The downside is that only those people who made a purchase would have something with the DCC logo on it.
If you just want to provide a DCC iron-on logo to every DCC member, you might try something like this: http://h30094.www3.h...ltimesmb/accessories. I estimate that you could print and ship these iron-on logos for approximately $1.75 each (purchase, printing, envelope & postage). The question is: do you want to send one to every donator? If so, that would be a gift, not a fund raiser (although, if worn, might generate some interest). Or do you want to ask a donator to contribute an additional $2.00 (or $3.00), if he/she would like a iron-on logo? The problem with the latter approach is that you may get only a few takers, and then lose the community and free publicity angle.
Personally, I like the lottery idea, with one of the donated programs as a prize. Or, since many of the members already have these programs, what about having DCC buy the winner (who already has one of the programs that have been donated) any program of his/her choice up to a maximum monetary amount? You'd have to chose that amount carefully, though, in case no one participates in the lottery.
If you just want to provide a DCC iron-on logo to every DCC member, you might try something like this: http://h30094.www3.h...ltimesmb/accessories. I estimate that you could print and ship these iron-on logos for approximately $1.75 each (purchase, printing, envelope & postage). The question is: do you want to send one to every donator? If so, that would be a gift, not a fund raiser (although, if worn, might generate some interest). Or do you want to ask a donator to contribute an additional $2.00 (or $3.00), if he/she would like a iron-on logo? The problem with the latter approach is that you may get only a few takers, and then lose the community and free publicity angle.
Personally, I like the lottery idea, with one of the donated programs as a prize. Or, since many of the members already have these programs, what about having DCC buy the winner (who already has one of the programs that have been donated) any program of his/her choice up to a maximum monetary amount? You'd have to chose that amount carefully, though, in case no one participates in the lottery.
-- like their attempt to muscle WordPerfect out of the market by the pretense (accepted by inexperienced Word users) that a document sent in WordPerfect format can't be translated into Word.
I feel free to suggest that a prize may not be necessary. What would probably be the most inspiring would be attribution -- and lavish praise. But you artists may disagree. Let' us hear what you think.
Like painting the room and then noticing the carpet should be cleaned, though, I now see another refinement that would make navigation even easier. Is it possible to install the "unread posts" button at the bottom of the file (where now resides such things as "mark as unread" and "send to")? With the addition, we can easily get from top to bottom, but have to get back up to the beginning to return to the unread posts page.
break.
I'm proud to be a member, and am looking forward to welcoming number 1,000.
, I would certainly settle for a lock and something fascinating to do when I pick her up to see what great work I have created on the screen. I vote for this as the next coding snack -- even if you can't get to the larger program you no doubt have planned.
Can you share a little about what you use, and why?