Contributors fund ideas they can be passionate about and to people they trust. Here are some things to do in this section:
Introduce yourself and your background.
Briefly describe your campaign and why it's important to you.
Express the magnitude of what contributors will help you achieve.
Remember, keep it concise, yet personal. Ask yourself: if someone stopped reading here would they be ready to make a contribution?
What We Need & What You Get
Break it down for folks in more detail:
Explain how much funding you need and where it's going. Be transparent and specific-people need to trust you to want to fund you.
Tell people about your unique perks. Get them excited!
Describe where the funds go if you don't reach your entire goal.
The Impact
Feel free to explain more about your campaign and let people know how the difference their contribution will make:
Explain why your project is valuable to the contributor and to the world.
Point out your successful track record with projects like this (if you have one).
Make it real for people and build trust.
Risks & Challenges
People value your transparency. Be open and stand out by providing insight into the risks and obstacles you may face on the way to achieving your goal.
Share what qualifies you to overcome these hurdles.
Describe your plan for solving these challenges.
Other Ways You Can Help
Some people just can't contribute, but that doesn't mean they can't help:
Ask folks to get the word out and make some noise about your campaign.
We're on a mission to create a kick-ass, feature rich, easy-to-use platform for musicians and recording artists. It will allow you to easily publish, manage and syndicate a wide variety of content without having to deal with HTML and/or pestering your webmaster every time you need an update.
Create your own website in minutes with just an internet connection and a web browser.
Choose from dozens of professional designs and layouts
Add your events, photos, songs, news updates and more.
Publish and syndicate your content everywhere
Sponsor development and you'll get a site and a whole lot more
We're looking for a few bands and artists to sponsor development of the site in which you'll get not only a great website but exposure to a worldwide audience of fans, companies and individuals. We'll do this by leveraging the Drupal online and local community for communication, collaboration, and promotion during development (see more on Drupal).
What are ways we can promote the artists?
Create sharable playlists and custom radio stations
Spotlight different artists every day on blogs, podcasts and collaborative workshops
Live performance during local Drupal meetups
Mixed media events that feature live music
Any thing else we can think of...
So what's the cost?
Because of my musical snobbery, and desire to come out of the gate with artists I love, I'm offering the complete website/syndication platform with all the aforementioned bells and whistles listed with 1 year of hosting for $300! When completed, you'll own the site and will be able to take it with you (although you'll probably be missing out on the new features and promotions that we'd be constantly rolling out).
If you'd like a custom design and layout, integrate our features into your current site, or need something completely different, just let me know and we'll see what we can do.
E-back or call if you're interested, have any questions, or just want to say hi. I very much look forward to providing some great web tools, putting on some shows, and getting fabulous music out to the world!
I just added you to the team for the DrupalKata site hosted on Pantheon. Thought it would give you a better idea of how it works under the hood. Feel free to hack around the test environment or other features (multidev?).
I've tried, yet have been unsuccessful, adding an existing platform via git. Are there current instructions on how to set this up... or if not, could you provide any pointers? Of course, if either of these are platforms you'll be providing with your new VPS offering, I'll be happy to spin up sites once these platforms are added.
When Snowball was initially rolled, it was a project of People Who Give a Damn, Inc. Is it currently, or intended to be remain, a PWGD project or is the goal to have the project managed by a separate (new or existing) organization? If the latter, Open Learning Labs, may be a good fit once it firms up these related issues.
As I believe this may be (an important) item I remain confused about, I'm assigning to the chief snowmaker to help clarify.
We need to determine the human resource requirements needed to keep both the program and associated website(s) operational and sustainable. Referenced are the roles and estimated time commitment from when we left off.
