[GenABEL-dev] Using advertisements (and other ways) to sponsor GenABEL

[Maksim Struchalin]

Hi Lennart & Yurii,

The first thing I would do is to introduce a "donation button" in www.genabel.org like on wikipedia. So user can type his/her credit card info and donate some money. I donated some money to wikipedia recently and could do it very quickly through their donation button. 

Maksim

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> On 15 окт. 2015 г., at 1:20, "L.C. Karssen" <l.c.karssen at polyomica.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> As you may have noticed over the past year(s) the contributions to the
> GenABEL project by Yurii and myself have steadily declined. The main
> reason for this is simple: lack of funding. We have started our own
> consulting business and although we have tried to include GenABEL into
> grant applications wherever we could, we haven't been able to secure any
> funds for this.
> 
> On the other side of the balance we do have some fixed costs related to
> the hosting of the genabel.org website (and some flexible costs related
> to its maintenance).
> 
> We therefore propose the following:
> 
> 1) Given that www.genabel.org does receive a reasonable number of
> visitors per month we would like to add Google Ads to the pages. This
> may not generate a lot of revenue but anything many small bits can help
> (see e.g. [1]).
> Of course this will lead to a change in layout of the site, but we will
> try to make this a minimally disruptive as possible so as not to harm
> the user experience.
> 
> Of course we understand that this can/should lead to a discussion about
> who owns/takes care of the incoming funds. We could set up a foundation
> under Dutch law to take care of that. However, that would require around
> €3500 per year in accounting/reporting costs, etc. which is much more
> than we can invest (and more than we expect to earn from the ads).
> Therefore we would like to propose the following: Being the main sponsor
> of the Project PolyOmica will manage the funds (any payment will go to
> our bank account), and as part of our open policy we will provide a
> regular (quarterly? annual?) report to the community of the income
> generated and how it was spent (see e.g [2]). Any money that remains
> after covering these basic costs can be used to fund further development
> of the GenABEL Suite packages (maybe via one of the options listed below).
> 
> 
> We also thought of some alternative ways of generating some income:
> 
> 2) Add a channel on bountysource.com [3]
> 3) Make the GenABEL Project a Team on Gratipay (formerly GitTip) [1,2,4,5]
> 4) Join http://flattr.com
> 
> Does anyone have experience with any of these micropayment/crowdfunding
> providers?
> 
> 
> Please let us know what you think of these ideas. We would really love
> to make the Project more vibrant and sustainable than it currently is!
> 
> 
> Lennart & Yurii.
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_rabbitson/2014/02/i-bought-a-weekly-round-for-my-friends.html
> [2] http://inside.gratipay.com/appendices/finances
> [3] https://salt.bountysource.com
> [4] https://gratipay.com/
> [5] https://medium.com/gratipay-blog/gratipay-2-0-2453d3c53077
> 
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