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

[Yurii Aulchenko]

I agree with Maksim - this is very handy how wikipedia does that. In case people are willing to donate, it should be very simple to do - otherwise people will not do this (my personal experience :))

Yurii

> On 15 Oct 2015, at 00:57, Maksim Struchalin <m.v.struchalin at mail.ru> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> Sent from my phone
> 
> 
> 
>> 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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>> Lennart C. Karssen
>> PolyOmica
>> Groningen
>> The Netherlands
>> 
>> l.c.karssen at polyomica.com
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