I was curious how our PayPal donations stacked up over time, so I downloaded our history and stuffed it into Excel and had it draw a pretty graph: Please note that this does not include donations received outside of PayPal (most notably $1200 from Paul Sharpe). Also, the December 2004 figures only include donations received … Continue reading “Donation history”
I was curious how our PayPal donations stacked up over time, so I downloaded our history and stuffed it into Excel and had it draw a pretty graph:
Please note that this does not include donations received outside of PayPal (most notably $1200 from Paul Sharpe). Also, the December 2004 figures only include donations received before December 19, when we switched over to accepting donations via the new MetaBrainz PayPal account.
The TRM database has been pruned again, making the system much faster and more reliable again.
At about 2200hrs UTC on December 22nd the TRM database
was “pruned” again.
As we did last time, we removed all TRMs apart from the ones attached to
MusicBrainz tracks, where the TRM had been looked up at least once.
Just before the prune we had about 3632598 TRMs; after the prune we had about 1989632.
For pretty pictures illustrating this, check out our
MRTG pages.
In other news, we just received our official tax-exempt notification from the IRS — this can take months or even years. With the skilled help from our lawyers we were able to do it in just over 5 weeks of time — amazing. Now that we’re completely in business, we will make an announcement to … Continue reading “Tax-exempt recognition from the IRS”
In other news, we just received our official tax-exempt notification from the IRS — this can take months or even years. With the skilled help from our lawyers we were able to do it in just over 5 weeks of time — amazing.
Now that we’re completely in business, we will make an announcement to this effect sometime in January — stay tuned!
If you’ve been watching MusicBrainz from the sidelines waiting for the fabled Advanced Relationships (AR) feature, wait no more! We have begun the first phase of testing for AR, on our staging server. Before you ask questions or start giving us feedback, please read the AR announcement for more details on this new feature.
If you’ve been watching MusicBrainz from the sidelines waiting for the fabled Advanced Relationships (AR) feature, wait no more! We have begun the first phase of testing for AR, on our staging server.
Before you ask questions or start giving us feedback, please read the AR announcement for more details on this new feature.
Kim Plowright from the BBC was kind enough to invite me to speak to the BBC about online communities and MusicBrainz. The presentation went well and the question and answer session allowed us (Dave Evans, RJ@AudioScrobbler, Russ@AudioScrobbler and myself were in attendance) meet some of the BBC folks. Dan Hill from the BBC even asked … Continue reading “BBC Thinking Lunch presentation”
Kim Plowright from the BBC was kind enough to invite me to speak to the BBC about online communities and MusicBrainz. The presentation went well and the question and answer session allowed us (Dave Evans, RJ@AudioScrobbler, Russ@AudioScrobbler and myself were in attendance) meet some of the BBC folks. Dan Hill from the BBC even asked me how the Advance Relationship work was going — I was expecting all kinds of questions, but I was surprised by that one.
Here are the presentation slides I used.
Here is one picture I took from Pub Night: Going from left to right: rjmunro, michael@last.fm, zerogravitas, rj@audioscrobbler, russ@last.fm, kass@bbc, djve, Paul Sharpe, gavinclarke, cikkolata, somniloquy
Here is one picture I took from Pub Night:
Going from left to right: rjmunro, michael@last.fm, zerogravitas, rj@audioscrobbler, russ@last.fm, kass@bbc, djve, Paul Sharpe, gavinclarke, cikkolata, somniloquy
I know, I know, I know. Captchas discriminate against vision impaired people. Regardless, I have installed comment captchas (little images that contain a number you need to type in) as a comment spam blocking solution. Its worked well on my other blog, and I hope it will work well here. I’ve not gone back to … Continue reading “Comment spam, take II”
I know, I know, I know. Captchas discriminate against vision impaired people.
Regardless, I have installed comment captchas (little images that contain a number you need to type in) as a comment spam blocking solution. Its worked well on my other blog, and I hope it will work well here. I’ve not gone back to all the entries to make sure that all comments are turned on, but they should be for all new posts.
Let’s hope this works.
I had a really great time in Europe (Spain and Britain) in the last couple of weeks. Now I’ve returned to the states, cleaned up my travel gear and I’m trying to convince my body to get over the jet-lag and prepare for getting back to work tomorrow. The MusicBrainz Pub Night was a success, … Continue reading “Vacation, pub night and getting back to work”
I had a really great time in Europe (Spain and Britain) in the last couple of weeks. Now I’ve returned to the states, cleaned up my travel gear and I’m trying to convince my body to get over the jet-lag and prepare for getting back to work tomorrow.
The MusicBrainz Pub Night was a success, if I say so myself. We ended up settling on the third pub in the list: Old Thameside. At its peak we had 14 people present, which is a record for getting Brainzerz together in one room. I really enjoyed meeting people face-to-face, espousing the virtues of MusicBrainz and getting people fired up about contributing.
We had a great number of conversations throughout the evening, but we mainly avoided plotting grand new schemes that we wouldn’t have time to implement. We did talk quite a bit about the new non-profit, AdvancedRelationships and our perennial problem of reducing the number of open moderations. We all had a good laugh at the last one — no matter what we do, it seems that open moderations tends to hover around 4000-5000 open moderations.
I really hope that in the coming year we can tackle a number of the things are we’re hoping to work on, so that we can have another full fledged summit towards the end of next year.
Thanks to everyone who showed up to the pub night — it was a really fun evening!
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