[Rubyforchange-talk] Fundraising effort @ OSCON / blog ads

[Giles Bowkett]

Hi all - I got the OSCON organizers from O'Reilly into the idea of
doing some fundraising there this year. It wasn't like RailsConf, but
they were able to get behind the idea. We raised only a bit more than
$500. They responded to my e-mail literally the day the conference
began, so there was a last-minute flavor to the whole thing; I think
next year they'll be better organized. If anyone wants to help me work
with the OSCON peeps next year, I'd definitely appreciate it. They're
a big organization, after all.

Anyway, another thing - people have been telling me I should advertize
on my blog, and rather than go through the effort of setting up a
sponsor, I think I'm just going to put up some ads for nonprofits. It
would be pretty easy to organize that as a project of this group also.
I was thinking a landing page where you donate in the name of Rubyists
for Change, plus, for each nonprofit on the landing page, a graphic
for your blog's sidebar with the logo of the nonprofit, some smaller
simpler logo for Rubyists for Change - just a type treatment would be
enough - and a direct link to give to that particular nonprofit on the
landing page. This would make it very easy for anyone to set up any
number of similar donation ads on their blogs as well, and to choose
their favorite nonprofits.

-- 
Giles Bowkett

Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org