Fund Drive 2012 is underway!

[linguist at LINGUISTLIST.ORG]

Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers,

It's that time of year again! We'd like to let all of our subscribers know
that the LINGUIST List Fund Drive has begun!

What if 650 people each gave $100? Or 1300 people each gave $50--and gave
it TODAY? Could we possibly begin and end Fund Drive in a single day?
Sounds like a pipe dream, doesn't it? But logically it's possible. The
LINGUIST List website receives 150,000 page views per week. That's over 6
million views per year. If only 1/30 of our weekly visitors donated $50
today, we would reach our goal. That's one-THIRTIETH, note--not
one-third--of our weekly site visitors.
And that doesn't count the 27,000 people who subscribe to the email list
and perhaps never visit the site. If only 1/415 of the people reading this
message would donate $100 each, we could end Fund Drive today:

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

So what would we at LINGUIST do with our extra time--besides smile a lot?
Well, instead of spending two solid months begging for money, we would
finish some exciting new services 2 months sooner:
-	We're almost ready to go live with a Summer School Register that we hope
will be very useful both to prospective students and to the institutions
running summer schools.
-	We're about to unveil a conference registration system, called EasyReg
to pair with our highly successful abstracts review service EasyAbs.
-	Thanks to Damir Cavar, we're almost ready to present a text-mining tool
that will allow you to search all LINGUIST issues, and perhaps all 150 of
the language-related email lists archived on our site.
-	We're planning a Project's Registry where PIs can publicize new projects
and services

Donate now to ensure the ongoing quality and continuation of our services!
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Sincerely,
The LINGUIST List Crew