Debbie Anderson
Jim Butler
Gem City Circle Walks
Steve Grismer
John Himes
MaryAgnes Mikalauskas
Lisa Persons
Kathryn Wiford
www.invink.com

I am pleased to say that between them this group of good people have given a total of $1,035.00. This is a little over a third of the amount DHBO needs to stay online and to add pages for more books/booklets, pictures and, of course, a LOT more pages for our bloggers. I want to include 200 more pages to the site over the next year so that all of the various discussions can be kept online instead of having to delete older ones. This past year has proven to me that people read ALL the posts and answer a few of them as well, some even going back to 2005.

For that to happen I do need your help. If you have thought about giving, even a small amount, please do so. Although the campaign officially does not end until December 31st, that is just a guideline, as there are bills due each month that will come up during that time, as well as next year.

Thanks in advance for helping me help you enjoy remembering Dayton as it once was and hopefully can be again!

(Theme music playing as I slowly fade from the screen)...

Now let's get back to Part Two of "Godzilla Conquers the Martins" (Inside joke to those of us who remember Bob 'let's stretch chickee a little looonger' Shreve)

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How about a minor explanation of what these expenses are - in general that is. Reason I'm asking is that maybe some of us might be able to provide that service for free. Example - you pay xxx a month for a server - maybe one of us has a server that could host the site for free - who knows. Just a thought.

Terry

PicoSearch -a search engine that allows people to search my site without ad pop-ups and reindexes without me having to do anything but set up a schedule. It also tells me the number of hits, pages visited most often, what people searched for, waht they found, what they didn't (which helps me decide what I should concentrate on placing on the site).

HostMonster - hosts the audio interviews, which eats up a LOT of Gigabytes of space, but also has an unlimited amount of space I can use and also does not charge for bandwidth usage (same goes for CityMax).

RoadRunner - High speed internet service to upload and download items, as well as access to DHBO.

Xerox of items to be placed on DHBO. At 15 cents a copy at the library, this can add up quickly. The radio scripts of Great Days in Dayton I put up lately cost me $15.75, for instance. Some books have cost over $50 for copies. But I couldn't even touch the originals as far as buying them outright, as some can run $125+. Many of the items cannot be taken out of the library, so that stops going somewhere cheaper.

I recently bought a laptop and a scanner and have used them to scan some of the photographs at the library, which I plan to start putting on DHBO at the beginning of next year.

Mailing - Much of the items you see here is typed by volunteers. I cannot mail the items media mail because they are not bound, but are loose pages. This cost has reached as high as $100 a year. This year will probably be closer to $80.

This year I bought special equipment to convert cassette tapes of the interviews to MP3 format. Again, I could not take the tapes home, but had to stay at the museum to transfer them - thus the special equipment. Hopefully this will also come in handy for possibly conducting present day oral interviews.

That's just some of the expenses of DHBO each year. I might be able to do it less expensively if I would learn html code, but that isn't in the cards. I barely have time to do it the way it works now - WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) method.

I hope this helps explain some of the cost of doing business and why I appreciate every donation that comes in.

Curt

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Gratefully yours,
Curt Dalton

Anyway, congrats and I'll look forward to visitng this site in the coming year.

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