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Jay Dougherty

Jay Dougherty

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Happy New Year, everyone.

It looks like we're going to come up far short of our support target for 2020, so if you can chip in to help support this site and the other projects we have going, please do:

https://openartsforum.com/forum/donations/site-support-for-2020.3/campaign

I plan to carry the site for the next year, but at some point I'll have to insist that members support the place fully or drastically scale back. The server for this site alone costs almost $700 per year now. The rest of the monetary goal was for software upgrades and maintenance releases, gallery software for the front page ($209 by itself), domain renewals, legal costs (created an LLC to house this and the other sites under), ads and other outreach efforts. So obviously I've paid for most of this stuff myself. Because we came up way short on support, I basically stopped all advertising and abandoned the idea of Submittable--two good sources of new talent for the site.

The editors and I are all working on this place for free, of course, mostly for our own enjoyment, but the "free" part means there's a thin line between keeping the place ticking and having it essentially die.

I personally hate making these periodic pleas, but they can't be helped, it seems, so please check in to the Support tab once in a while during the year to see where we are, and if you can spare some change, please do if you get something out of this effort and the others.

Thanks in advance. :)
 
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I have underestimated the time and money that goes into running a publication, and see the importance of support in more than one way. I really love the structure, community, and flexibility being a part of Open Arts Forum and will be more proactive about giving support and recruiting more artists to share their work.

Thank you for all you do here Jay, though I know I don't know the half of it, and allowing for me to be an editor. You're doing an outstanding job and asking/ giving reminders of support is a small feat in itself. I think as artists it is our responsibility to support other artists as well.​
 
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