Group: Ipernity Members Association Project


Suggestions related to the project setting up / Suggestions relatives à la mise en place du projet


Eric Desjours
By A Eric Desjours club
27 Jan 2017 - 182 comments - 7 636 visits- Permalink   |   Translate title into English

This thread is open to your contributions for the improvement of our process. They can be related to the organization, the financial or the technical aspects. We'll do our best to take the most relevant suggestions into account.

Ce fil de discussion est ouvert à toute contribution visant à l'amélioration de la mise en place du projet, qu'elle soit organisationnelle, financière ou technique. Nous ferons de notre mieux pour les prendre en considération.

We thank you to respect the objective of this thread. Any contribution which does not follow this recommendation will be removed without notice.

Merci de respecter son objectif. Toute contribution qui ne suis pas cette recommandation est susceptible d'être supprimée sans préavis.

The topic of this discussion has been edited by Eric Desjours 8 months ago.

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 Sami Serola (inactive)
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied
Following the logic of survey results:
www.ipernity.com/group/2260604/discuss/186528

We got 1443 participating to the survey, 2/3 = 962 (majority) of them thinking 50€ (or more) per year is alright. 97% said they desire Ipernity to continue (meaning they supposedly are okay that IMA continues it). 97% out of 1443 is 1400, meaning supposedly and hopefully all of them agrees on the opinion of the 2/3 majority as pays the 50€ annual fee. It then makes 70,000€. Then I have understood the costs per month at the moment are 5,000€, making 60,000€ per year. Although, I'm not sure if some of the costs were actually in dollars...

Nevertheless, with that 1400 users and current server costs, there is no much to clearance. I've seen the other suggestions of having different rates based on whether one is using just blog or full features. But to hire someone to implement that will cost as well.

I don't know whether people really, really have understood the troubles we are in. This opportunity is however all we have at the moment, to keep the service running, and take to control into our own hands.

EDIT: William has said the annual costs can be even 66,000€: www.ipernity.com/group/2260604/discuss/186298/comment/50234040#comment50234040
I have understood they can not reveal the exact details as long as Ipernity S.A. is still the official owner, but I believe that is what it takes to run the web site with current amount of users and settings.
7 years ago. Edited 7 years ago.
 HappySnapper
HappySnapper
Could I ask out of the 66,000€ budget how much of that was spent on supplying server space for the "Free account users" and if this figure is known would that amount be included in the future IMA's budget for running the site.?
7 years ago.
 dgmphoto
dgmphoto club
It seems that a number of people who wanted to donate to the crowd funding have not done so because of the need to use a credit card. At this stage is it possible to use an additional crowd funding site (even if there are fees) to enable these people to donate? Money from these people even if reduced by fees is better than no money from them.
7 years ago.
 Sami Serola (inactive)
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied
That is a good suggestion dgmphoto =)

Keep in mind there is hardly no crowdfundings supported by PayPal anymore:
www.cnbc.com/2016/05/09/paypal-pulls-buyer-protection-for-crowdfunding-sites.html
(also other news sources mentioned along the discussions here)

Here's one option: gogetfunding.com
7 years ago.
 TimC
TimC has replied
Yes! Please! I am ready and willing but unable to donate because I simply do not possess a credit card.
7 years ago.

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