The NLG community keeps doing what it's good at: development, entrepreneursship and.... support! That last thing is meant in the broadest sense of the word. Besides new users we will again support people in need and we will do so through the event called 3FM Serious Request 2015! (for non-Dutch, check out what SR15 is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Request ). This year's cause will be youth in warzones.
Ok, that's nice, but please elaborate a bitAs we all know, SR15 is a huge happening attracting millions of viewers and attendees over the course of the event itself, so we do need good preperation and continuous contibution in support, promotion etc. To make this action a succes, we need to do this all together.
That means #dowork
Read on please!
What do we want to achieve?We want 3FM radio to be ready to accept a donation in NLG. That is quite different from normal donations; people mostly just drop a crumpled envelope in the too tiny mailbox or put up a coloured cheque (that can be done also after all, but more about that later).
Given the fact hundreds of thousands of people are watching Serious Request, this is also an action with a lot of ambition, so it fits NLG perfectly!
How will we do thisIt is important that we will be in the picture in the right way, though we should start by really showing 3FM radio that we take their action seriously (and so they will take ours seriously).
First we need to give 3FM notice of our action, by making an action page at
https://kominactie.3fm.nl2.
In a later stadium (as soon as the action is underway) we can give them notice that we want to come over and hand over the money we collected personally:
http://seriousrequest.3fm.nl/formulier/langskomen1.
What do we needThis is not a type of action that is done by just a donation. As said, as a group we need to continuously follow this up. A lot of hands makes it easier, for the first steps we need:
- Most important, 1 person that contacts 3FM, makes the arrangement to come over AND also makes it clear that donation will be done in NLG!
- A name for this action: “Voor een gulden toekomst?” (by Buerra)
- A banner (1200*350) + avatar (600*600) for the actionpage
- A short, clear desription of what this action is about
- An indication of the amount we want to raise in Euro's
- Two or three people who want to run/manage and promote the action page
- People who want to come to Heerlen as soon the moment is there to hand over the raised NLG. The more the merrier!
I can't wait/how can i help?See above, there is already enough to do. And all input + good ideas are more than welcome!
@bramvnl already has taken on managing our donations address, lots of thanks for that!
Donations can already be sent to the following SR15 address:
GSR159fitYW3sT3wGwREnmi5PhnknqsP7DOk people, let's do the things you are good at to achieve this! Let's #dowork and I look forward to hearing from you!
Last but not least, this is the thread on the Gulden forum:
https://community.gulden.com/t/serious-request-2015-we-need-you/1352
. But all good, we've been working hard and hit some road blocks along the way. It's not been easy to achieve the next update, but we're powering through. 
