IDEA 20090201 Raise 15K LGM

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Last year, my friend Dave Neary and I used my buddy Mark Daggett's new project Pledgie to raise about 12,000 USD. This year, we are doing the same and I'm helping lead this along with others from around the free software-based graphics communities. The campaign http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926 is starting and we need to spread the word like wildfire! We are trying to raise 15K USD by April 22 to support travel assistance to free and open source developers who often work for free, and work together while being spread all around the world.

Part of the strategy is to launch the pledgie campaign: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926 and with http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/LGM2009_Press_Release Then, to blog it on my own site: http://rejon.org/2009/02/support-libre-graphics-meeting-2009-fundraising-campaign/ Then, get others to do like Dave Neary: http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2009/02/27/libre-graphics-meeting-2009-community-fundraising-campaign/ and Alexandre Prokoudine: http://prokoudine.info/blog/?p=119

Then, I sent out an email blast with the press release: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/LGM2009_Press_Release Next will be to get last year's non-anonymous donors on-board http://pledgie.com/campaigns/613 Then, will lead charge to ask large donors and corporations starting on Monday of next week.