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- You can make it possible to make world-class, free and open source educational materials like the encyclopedia and the misdesigns
- You can help us maintain the world's largest wiki bibliography - a goldmine of research
- You can help us maintain the hugely popular calendar
- You can help us prove that it's possible to make world-class content without taking the authors' works and rights as hostage through copyright
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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: Licenses:
Licenses 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 (8.1% of total)
$ 18,600: Office (rent):
Expenses for rent, electricity, heating, and the like. (10.5% of total)
$ 24,400: 3rd party consulting:
3rd party consulting to help with security problems, graphics, bug-fixing, database optimization, and the like (13.8% of total)
$ 6,400: Dedicated server + 24/7 support:
Managed hosting of a dedicated web and database server. 24/7 support required. (3.6% 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. (29.8% of total)
$ 32,800: Salary:
Mads Soegaard is sofar the only paid staff (18.5% of total)
Numbers updated monthly
$ 1,400: Other (66.6%)
$ 10: Corporate Donations (0.5%)
$ 691: Private Donations (32.9%)
Numbers updated monthly
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