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Progress for 2010:
2010 is the make-or-break year for Interation-Design.org.
The site has become such a big success that we have reached a crossroads: We simply don't have enough spare time to handle the ever-increasing number of visitors/emails/updates/approvals so we have only one choice: Get funding or stop the site entirely.
Our first attempt is to raise money through donations. If we are not successful, we plan to launch a sponsorship program to supplement donations.
None of the people behind this project get paid for their time, work, and commitment. While working on this exciting open-content endeavour gives us a lot of pleasure, we still hope to be able to at least cover our direct costs.
$ 9,600: Licences:
Licences to tools for programming, database development, code and database performance measuring and optimizing. Plus the usual. (5.4% of total)
$ 14,400: Hardware:
Laptops, testing server, peripherals (8.2% of total)
$ 2,500: Google Index:
Interaction-Design.org is a huge site - currently 115.512 pages. When a site is as big as Interaction-Design.org, Google requires a fee to index the site (and thus make pages appear in search results). (1.4% of total)
$ 8,600: Office (rent):
Expenses for rent, electricity, heating, and the like. (4.9% of total)
$ 24,400: 3rd party tech consulting:
3rd party consulting to help with security problems, graphics, bug-fixing, database optimization, and the like (13.8% of total)
$ 10,400: Legal counselling:
We want to be able to publish world-class educational matierails in an open content licence. Just like in other industries where traditional publishers are forced to re-think their business model they try to make life difficult for new initiatives (the music industry being one example). We have to tread very carefully and need legal counselling to avoid any legal 'party killers' (5.9% of total)
$ 2,200: Dedicated server:
Managed hosting of a dedicated web and database server. 24/7 support required. (1.2% of total)
$ 3,200: 24/7 support for server:
24/7 support for dedicated web and database server. (1.8% of total)
$ 12,400: Travel:
Editorial meetings and conferences (7% of total)
$ 5,900: Insurance:
Mandatory insurances (3.3% of total)
$ 52,800: Danish Tax:
Tax is app. 50% of income in Denmark, often a bit more. (30% of total)
$ 29,850: Salary:
Mads Soegaard is sofar the only paid staff (16.9% of total)
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$ 1,400: Other (66.6%)
$ 10: Corporate Donations (0.5%)
$ 691: Private Donations (32.9%)
Numbers updated monthly
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