Less than sixteen $20 contributions daily needed to meet our goal.
We can do this!
We’re 31 days into our IndieGoGo fundraising campaign — known as our May Pledge Drive until we extended the expiration date to June 15 — and as of this morning we’ve raised $1,215 dollars. That’s twenty percent of our $6,000 goal. In other words, it’s not nearly enough.
Under our current plans to pay our writers, this amount will only be enough to fund us for barely over a month. If we spread it thin, it’ll be enough to keep our writers minimally paid for seven weeks — nowhere near the six months we need if we’re to get this expansion of FOSS Force off the ground.
To be sure, the survival of FOSS Force is not at stake here — not in the short term anyway. But if we don’t reach our goal — again, to be used entirely to pay writers — we will not be able to expand our coverage, which is absolutely necessary if we are to grow our site’s coverage of FOSS related news and events. The excellent team of writers we have on board now need to be paid for the hours they put-in working for FOSS Force — working for all of you who read our site. We also need to be offering payment to attract other qualified writers to our site.
Experienced professional writers do not work for free.
Right now we’re fortunate to have two experienced writers — three if you count me (and I won’t be paying myself from funds raised in this campaign) — who are willing to volunteer their services to FOSS Force for at least the time being. But they both need to put beans on the table and keep a roof over their heads — and working for gratis doesn’t help them do that.
If you read our site weekly and find value in what we do, then we ask you to strongly consider making a contribution to our cause. Give what you can, but please give something. We are depending on you to show your support. Please, go to our IndieGoGo campaign page and contribute.
Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
