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The Pledge Drive!

Author: Mark Charette, Webmaster
Date: 2000-10-14 14:32

If you enjoy using the services on Sneezy, please consider contributing. Two years ago the Klarinet mailing list people came up with $5000 in 2 months - maybe this time the BBoarders can shoulder part of the burden.

Did you know that Stan Geidel's Online Clarinet Resource and the Woodwind Fingering Guide are provided space and resources on Sneezy for free? (http://www.ocr.sneezy.org / http://www.wfg.sneezy.org)

It currently costs between $2000 and $3000/year in cold, hard cash to keep Sneezy and associated services going, and our Sponsors and Web hosting just about cover that. I have been getting a hign-speed Internet connection gratis from a local newspaper, but due to a change in management I now have to supply my own high-speed Internet connection and line. That is going to more than double the annual costs.

I've set a Pledge Goal of $4500. A breakdown of the new money needed to keep the site going another year:
<hr> <table border=0> <tr> <td>Business DSL line + installation: <td>$3800.00 <tr> <td>UPS for 3 machines w/ remote administration: <td>$ 600.00 <tr> <td>Electricity (est)/yr : <td>$1200.00 <tr>
<td colspan=2> <hr> <tr> <td> <td> $5600.00 </table> <hr>
Which means that $1100.00 will (hopefully) be made up from new sponsors. There's some new hosting going on, too, and I have some new idea on making Sneezy even more self-sufficient. We probably won't need a new pledge drive for quite some time - maybe never again ...
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I've been asked "Why can't I use one of those free sites for Sneezy?". A couple of answers:

1) Sneezy sends out an average of 1GB of data/day! No "freebie" sites will do that, and most small business sites only allow 1GB/mo before they make you move to an expensive setup.

2) Sneezy (the web site only) takes up about 1.7Gb of disk space right now - and it grows daily.

3) I'd not be able to control and administer the site nearly as well as I can today.
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For those of you who live outside of North America - unfortunately, it's harder to contribute. The PayPal credit card service isn't yet international (soon I hope). Some of the ways to get money to the US without incurring huge currency conversion costs are: international money orders (sometimes available via your postal office), traveller's cheques (pre-signed), and wire transfers. More details on the wire transfers are on the Pledge Page at http://www.sneezy.org/Pledge.html.<hr>Thank you for your continued support.
Mark Charette, Webmaster

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