Re: [IxDA Discuss] Give a Little Back, Day 2

2009-06-24 Thread Nasir Barday
Looks like this post took its time to make its way through the intertubes. Go Day 3! - Nasir On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Nasir Barday wrote: (via Janna DeVylder): We are fast approaching the end of Day 2 of the IxDA "Give a Little Back" support drive. Thank you to the 405 people w

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Give a little back

2009-06-23 Thread Gilberto Medrano
Hi Elizabeth, Thanks for all the context and I apologize for "spinning the wheels" with my suggestions (I definitely missed the messages 6 months ago). I am delighted to be aware of the process that the Board has been following so far and completely understand and agree with the plan to capitaliz

[IxDA Discuss] Give a Little Back, Day 2

2009-06-23 Thread Nasir Barday
(via Janna DeVylder): We are fast approaching the end of Day 2 of the IxDA "Give a Little Back" support drive. Thank you to the 405 people who have shown such great support, raising almost $8,000 for this important initiative. We have reached 25% of our goal, so we still need your help. Please sp

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Give a little back

2009-06-23 Thread Thomas Davies
I am not sure how this works, but I thought I might mention the idea as a possible way of raising money. While I was looking at degree courses, many universities showed off how they had Cisco and BCS (British Computer Society) accreditation for their courses. This was a way to show students

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Give a little back

2009-06-23 Thread Harvinder
: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:43 AM To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Give a little back Dear IxDA community, Today I add my voice the chorus of people donating a chunk of change to IxDA. I'm presently IxDA Vice-President and Creative Director of the website re-design project for whi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Give a little back

2009-06-23 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
Dear IxDA community, Today I add my voice the chorus of people donating a chunk of change to IxDA. I'm presently IxDA Vice-President and Creative Director of the website re-design project for which we are raising funds, but I'm also emphatically one of you. I'm a passionate advocate for the power

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Give a little back

2009-06-21 Thread Adrian Howard
On 21 Jun 2009, at 18:08, IxDA Board of Directors wrote: For the price of a cup of coffee you can help IxDA deliver our next-generation platform to serve the needs of the interaction design community. We can't do it without your help. Have $30. You're worth it. (but - please god - if you do

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Give a little back

2009-06-21 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
Hi folks, Thanks, Gilberto, for thinking about our best interests. Let me give the group some more background. This project, code-named IxDA Conan, was launched over six months ago with a call for volunteer contributions. We also put out a call for support in the groups.drupal.org communi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Give a little back

2009-06-21 Thread Gilberto Medrano
While I am willing to contribute without hesitation, I would like to offer some thoughts: I am an interaction designer for desktop/web applications, but I have created Drupal sites in versions 5 and 6 (custom themes, CCK, overriding nodes, Views 2, configuration, etc). I am wondering if there are

[IxDA Discuss] Give a little back

2009-06-21 Thread IxDA Board of Directors
For the price of a cup of coffee you can help IxDA deliver our next-generation platform to serve the needs of the interaction design community. We can't do it without your help. http://bit.ly/17AJoE Since its inception as a mailing list in 2003, IxDA now supports over 10,000 discussion list