April is Support OCR month

[Kulaman]

so... how do I get shirts without spending 1/3 of the price on shipping? I'd like as much of my purchase to actually go to OCR as possible... or should i just suck it up and spend $7 on shipping?

[Dafydd]

So how much money was actually donated?

[amvteknoboy]

Just donated $20, I love this site and the people I've met because of it! I hope to donate more in the future ^_^.

Take care everyone!

[The Coop]

So how much money was actually donated?

djp will tell us when he gets back from the party he threw with the money ;-) :lol:

[big giant circles]

djp will tell us when he gets back from the party he threw with the money ;-) :lol:

lies. filthy lies, there was no party.

he blew it in vegas

[JJT]

he blew it in vegas
what??????? what happened to my cut?


uh, i mean that's deplorable.

[Dhsu]

he blew it in vegas
I think you mean he made educated investments at various casinos.

[The Coop]

I think you mean he made educated investments at various casinos.

Uh huh. And the US was just dropping off a couple packages for Japan in the mid-40s :-P

[Abadoss]

Hey, airmail can get mixed up sometimes... especially in that era. :P

[The Coop]

Tell me about it.

I was supposed to get a copy of Anet Futatabi for the Sega CD one time, and instead, I got a Russian mail order bride named Anetti. Sure, she was a lot more fun to play with, and like it would have been with Anet Futatabi, I couldn't understand what was being said. But I felt a little gypped. At least if the game was giving me a hard time, I could have turned it off.

I wonder where that game wound up...

[Dhsu]

Hopefully in the arms of a loving and appreciative husband.

[Abadoss]

Hmm... that explains where she went...

[Dafydd]

Seriously, I want to know. How much money was donated in total? For how long will this rally let DJP to run the site without biting his nails over funding? Did we help at all?

[djpretzel]

Seriously, I want to know. How much money was donated in total? For how long will this rally let DJP to run the site without biting his nails over funding? Did we help at all?

We raised about $2400, which translates to 8 months of hosting. Of course, we've still got the (fading) google ads, and the more people use our Amazon store, Zzounds, and buy shirts, the better.

Bottom line: This was a huge success, I owe Jimmy big time, we should be really solid for 2008, and I'm not biting my nails. Well, I am, but now it's more over site development projects than funding.

That being said, it's not like we raised $10,000 and are set forever; I'm still going to be looking into better, more relevant advertising for the site, we still need folks to use the Amazon store when they can (and Zzounds), we've still got a lot of T-shirts to sell, and so I never really consider anything 100% stable/done. Nevertheless, April was awesome, and puts us in a far, far better position than ever before.

[Dafydd]

Well, good! At least you're all set until Christmas, which is when people are supposedly more generous than other times of the year, so that would be a good time to run this thing again. ;-)

[djpretzel]

Well, good! At least you're all set until Christmas, which is when people are supposedly more generous than other times of the year, so that would be a good time to run this thing again. ;-)

Well, last Xmas we asked users to donate to one of 3-4 charities; even if it means losing out on funding we need, I'm a bit more comfortable using the winter holidays to encourage donations to worthwhile charities & causes other than OCR.

If we can do a fundraiser like this every April with the same degree of success, we should be really solid. Nowhere near solid enough for this to be my fulltime job or anything like that - none of the money goes towards my time at all, presently - but enough so that I'm not losing sleep over declining google ads, etc.

[The wingless]

Dude, post who spent how much!

I want to see my name in motherfucking LIGHTS!

[prophetik]

five dollars doesn't get you lights, son.

[JJT]

Dude, post who spent how much!

I want to see my name in motherfucking LIGHTS!
http://championvinyl.net/wingy.PNG

[prophetik]

it's spelled DOLLORS, not DOLLARS, idiot

[amvteknoboy]

it's spelled DOLLORS, not DOLLARS, idiot

its hard to tell, but that looks like an A to me.

[JJT]

it is an A. i'm not even sure why i feel the need to defend myself...

either that or proph is alluding to something i that's over my head

[prophetik]

it's spelled DOLLORS, not DOLLARS, idiot

it was a joke, but i think that no one got it. i typed it correctly.

[big giant circles]

I think it's safe to say Dave was BLAZED by all the support.

[Kulaman]

wait a minute.... he's using our donated money to buy weed???? wtf!

[prophetik]

well, he DID blow it all in vegas, after all.

[Dhsu]

wait a minute.... he's using our donated money to buy weed???? wtf!
Indeed, zyko be a high-dolla ho.

[The Instrumental Light]

I don't know why, but the post office mailed me back the letter I sent to OCR with the $5 and it had the sticker on it saying "Return to sender, not deliverable as addressed." This is the address I used: OverClocked ReMix
PO Box 223104
Chantilly, VA 20153 Is this correct? Because either the post office made a mistake, or I got the wrong address (I got it off of this website, so it should've worked).

[djpretzel]

I don't know why, but the post office mailed me back the letter I sent to OCR with the $5 and it had the sticker on it saying "Return to sender, not deliverable as addressed." This is the address I used: OverClocked ReMix
PO Box 223104
Chantilly, VA 20153
Is this correct? Because either the post office made a mistake, or I got the wrong address (I got it off of this website, so it should've worked).

That should have worked... I'll look into it, sorry for the inconvenience.

[The wingless]

I'm still waiting to be put on the Gold Patron list on the side of the OCremix building.

[Abadoss]

"Return to sender, address unknown."

Fixed... I'm sorry. I can't help but think of Elvis. :P

[The Instrumental Light]

That should have worked... I'll look into it, sorry for the inconvenience.No problem, I was just wondering if you had possibly changed your address recently or anything. Should I try sending it again and see what happens?

[sgx]

I just donated some monies. All late-like.

OCR +$30

Probably wouldn't have won the ourstage thing if it weren't for the folks here, so why not?

[DarkeSword]

I just donated some monies. All late-like.

OCR +$30

Probably wouldn't have won the ourstage thing if it weren't for the folks here, so why not?


TOO LATE APRIL IS OVER WE DON--

*shot*

[big giant circles]

blah blah blah


http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p238/biggiantcircles/1luvu.gif PEOPLE WHO WILL/ALREADY HAVE CONTRIBUTED http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p238/biggiantcircles/1luvu.gif
-some n00bs
-The wingless (http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/A_winner_is_you)
-moar n00bs

fixed. May is inflate wingless's ego month.

[Bahamut]

TOO LATE APRIL IS OVER WE DON--

*shot*

Nice headshot zircon!

[prophetik]

teh wangless

[The wingless]

fixed. May is inflate wingless's ego month.

Finally, somebody who knows how to talk to The Talent!

[Doulifée]

Was forced to look at amazon.com to found an item not available via amazon.Fr, so i did it via ocr.

[djpretzel]

Finally, somebody who knows how to talk to The Talent!

The Talent hasn't submitted a ReMix in over two years; The People grow restless...

[Doulifée]

The Talent hasn't submitted a ReMix in over two years; The People grow restless...

The Restless, sound good to the ears. :nicework:

[The wingless]

The Talent hasn't submitted a ReMix in over two years; The People grow restless...

Pretzel fucking calling me out on the internet!

Just for that, it's a piano Schala's theme with voice samples from "Pootie Tang"



...Sa da tay!

[brvmlwlw]

$10 donated. :)

[Raziellink]

So, how much money did you guys gather? And what kind of use will it be to the site?

[mattoco]

The information you seek, as of 3 weeks ago, lies below

We raised about $2400, which translates to 8 months of hosting. Of course, we've still got the (fading) google ads, and the more people use our Amazon store, Zzounds, and buy shirts, the better.

Bottom line: This was a huge success, I owe Jimmy big time, we should be really solid for 2008, and I'm not biting my nails. Well, I am, but now it's more over site development projects than funding.

That being said, it's not like we raised $10,000 and are set forever; I'm still going to be looking into better, more relevant advertising for the site, we still need folks to use the Amazon store when they can (and Zzounds), we've still got a lot of T-shirts to sell, and so I never really consider anything 100% stable/done. Nevertheless, April was awesome, and puts us in a far, far better position than ever before.

[Raziellink]

Ah, thanks alot. I went a few pages back, but i couldn't find anything of the sorts.

2400 dollars? That's awesome. Though it did sound a bit like he was dissappointed...

[Triad Orion]

I didn't get the impression he was disappointed, rather that it was a realistic assessment. Even with raising money, it's just he needs more, so he was addressing his plans on how to do it. April did well and it took a monkey off his back for awhile, but it's not like we killed it, just merely tranq'd it and got a good laugh out of its misfortune.

[big giant circles]

I didn't get the impression he was disappointed, rather that it was a realistic assessment. Even with raising money, it's just he needs more, so he was addressing his plans on how to do it. April did well and it took a monkey off his back for awhile, but it's not like we killed it, just merely tranq'd it and got a good laugh out of its misfortune.

haha, well said.

Ah, thanks alot. I went a few pages back, but i couldn't find anything of the sorts.

2400 dollars? That's awesome. Though it did sound a bit like he was dissappointed...

Yeah. $2400 is definitely nothing to sneer at, and I'd hardly call the fund-raising effort a failure. However, if there's anything to be disappointed about, it's that there were still a lot of people who contributed large amounts of money (some over $100) which constituted a great portion of that sum. Which is super fantasic and generous of them, especially when I only asked for $5-10.

The only thing that disheartens me just a little is that for as many people as there are that frequent these forums, we still had a TINY percentage contribute anything at all.

I think the goal next year is to see if we can get enough people to simply contribute the $5-10 minimal amount. If we even got a mere 5% of the forum members to contribute a mere $5, that's over $5000, over TWICE what we managed in April. Factor in that some might contribute $10, then that's anywhere up to $10,000!

THEN, I think we could safely say the monkey on DJP's back has been obliterated.

This frame of mind would do humanity so much good on so many levels. Nobody subscribes to the EVERYBODY MAKES A DIFFERENCE belief. Which is a shame.

If we all drove a little less every day. If we all turned off lights when we're not using them. If we'd all eat a little less fast food each month. If we'd all recycle a few cans. If we'd all simply contribute a few bucks.

Anyone getting my meaning here? What overwhelms a few people is nothing to many people. Let's try to all get in this mindset for next April :nicework:

[djpretzel]

What Jimmy said :nicework:

I recently talked with folks from another site who from this thread somehow got the impression that we're in dire economic straits, on the verge of collapsing; this is not the case, nor do I think we tried to pretend it was the case so as to get more donations. The situation is simply that, with Google ads being the primary thing allowing the site to break even, their decline did for the first time since we became self-hosted jeopardize our breaking even. Furthermore, I was spending a lot of time worrying about the ads, going over statistics, etc. when - in my mind at least - I should have been working on making the site better.

This fundraiser accomplished the goal of allowing me to focus on development 120% - I've been doing tons of work and am making great progress, with help from others.

Just as a sidenote, my reaction was positive but restrained because I don't want to give people the impression that we're now "set for life" or anything... I think the idea of an annual thing like this, every April, is fantastic, but hopefully year round people will start using the Amazon and Zzounds referrals more, as that could really make up for the decline on Google's side.

At any rate, let me reiterate: this was awesome, and thanks to all who chipped in. If we get what we're working on off the ground in 2008, I think you'll understand why this was so important!

[The wingless]

Damn you Pretzel. DAMN YOU TO AN IRISH HELL!

I want the WORLD to know how much money I spent Overclocked Remix! My self-worth is only as good as my dollar value!!!!

[big giant circles]

Damn you Pretzel. DAMN YOU TO AN IRISH HELL!

I want the WORLD to know how much money I spent Overclocked Remix! My self-worth is only as good as my dollar value!!!!

Listen here. I set your worth in multi-colored letters, biatch. And I have the power [size=1] it. I own your soul!!!!!!!

[The Coop]

The situation is simply that, with Google ads being the primary thing allowing the site to break even, their decline did for the first time since we became self-hosted jeopardize our breaking even. Furthermore, I was spending a lot of time worrying about the ads, going over statistics, etc. when - in my mind at least - I should have been working on making the site better.

You can thank No Script, Adblock, and programs like them for that. Perhaps you should request people to not block them on OCR.

[linkspast]

This should be bumped....

[Gollgagh]

This should be bumped....

That's cool and all, but you do realize that the way this subforum is structured you can't bump things, right? Announcements are sorted by OP date, not last post date.

[Dafydd]

I didn't know about that, but if it did work like the other subforums it would be a mess..

I'd still like some numbers over how many gigs of remixes are downloaded from the 3 download mirrors at a monthly average.

[Doulifée]

This should be bumped....

it's not april yet.