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

[Giles Bowkett]

> > 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.
[donate buttons]

On 8/14/07, Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally at gmail.com> wrote:
> That would be cool; I can whip something up if we don't have any real
> desingers around. :)

It's cool by me. :-)

> And sorry to thread-jack, but upon first reading I thought you meant
> something different and it raised an idea in my head:  What if, for
> one day, all the "big" Ruby blogs donated their ad earnings to
> charity?

Well, to properly thread-jack, you need to cc: the list. :-)

fwiw I think It's a cool idea but I don't know if many big Ruby blogs
make a lot. RailsConf seems a better venue for the concerted giving
thing.

-- 
Giles Bowkett

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>
> --Jeremy
>
> On 8/14/07, Giles Bowkett <gilesb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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