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

[L.C. Karssen]

Hi Maksim, Yurii,

Thanks for your input in the discussion.

On 15-10-15 09:44, Yurii Aulchenko wrote:
> 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 :))
> 

Sounds like a good option to me too, I hadn't thought of that.
My question with this option is how payments are processed. Is there a
company that provides this kind of button+service? And what do they charge?
For Google and Gratipay I already found those details.

The nice thing about Gratipay and BountySource.com is that you can more
directly show/inform the audience what the money will be used for. With
a donate button and Google Ads that is not so easy.


Lennart.

> 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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