A-Infos Radio Project Fundraising and Bandwidth Update

From: "Lyn Gerry"
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:12:54 -0500
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Subject: [radio] A-Infos Radio Project Fundraising and Bandwidth Update

Dear Radio Project Uploaders and Downloaders,

At the beginning of the year we increased our bandwidth after making
do on a residential DSL line for the past six years. We had intended
to double our bandwidth but it turned out that what we really needed
was to quadruple our bandwidth to keep things moving at a nice clip.
This meant doubling the monthly cost. We decided to see if everyone
cared about this enough to chip in. We're happy to tell you that we
have raised enough to pay for bandwidth for the next 3 1/2 months at
our present speed. And we'll keep it going as long as contributions
keep coming.

One of the things we introduced was the option to make a monthly
subscription of 5 or 10 dollars via paypal and 10 people have signed
up for this.

Now that we have increased our bandwidth, what we suspected has been
confirmed - there were people wanting to use the site but they just
couldn't get through. There has been a 50% per cent
increase in unique visitors to the site - if we were a radio station
we'd have a monthly audience of more than 30,000 people.

And, you've probably noticed that there a quite a few new producers
contributing their work. Thanks to everyone, producers and donors who
have made this project mean something. Next month, we will have been
online for 7 years - maintained by volunteers and funded by our users.

And here's some inspiring news: a new network of 7 low-power FM
stations in New Zealand is using audio from our site for most of
their broadcast schedule.

If every one of our users gave only a dollar a year, we could have
some monster bandwidth. You can send us a buck anytime to:

A-Infos Radio Project
P. O. Box 302
Watkins Glen, NY 14891

Thanks!

The A-Infos Project maintainers,
Shawn, David, and Lyn
http://www.radio4all.net

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