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Expenses

Any donations - even $5 - are greatly appreciated! The web site costs $$ to run and maintain.

Monthly Expenses

Monthly Expense Type Explanation
$13/month Web Hosting Our current web hosting service provider is 1and1.com. While their download speeds are a bit slow, we have ~2GB of web storage. If you ever decide to use them, please use this link, as we'll get a 1 month free service referral bonus. If you do this, please let us know so we can make sure the credit goes through. The hiking exchange can't use their cheaper package as it doesn't provide some of the services we need to run our web scripts.

Other "soft" expenses: [some shared with other activities]

Monthly Expense Type Explanation
$10/month Internet Service $36/month, we estimate it's used 20-30% of the time for northbayhikes uploads and web development.
160hrs/year Web programming Average time spent working on the web site. Some months it's zero, other months it's most of the weekends.
not included  Software We use a paid version of Microsoft Sharepoint Designer and other tools like Adobe Photoshop to work on the web site.
other files Web Hosting We also host our family web site using the same package, but only because there is extra space. It's not used much, as we're facebook users now, whereas northbayhikes is used daily so the pro-rated amount is negligible - perhaps 10%?

Donation History

Here is a summary of donations to date. We'd be happy to mention your name as a sponsor, please let us know in the notes column when you donate if you'd like to be anonymous or mentioned. If you don't mention, we'll use your name for full credit.

Year Expenses Donations Extra Information
2012 $144 est $195
  • $100 from Gurjit Nijjar. Wow! Wow! Lightning strikes twice!
  • $10 from Laurie Winkler
  • $10 from Barbara Frisch-Klopper
  • $10 from Jami Ross
  • $20 from Vina Breyfogle
  • $20 from Bob Matreci
  • $25 from Taryn Young
2011 $144 est $217
  • $25 from Charles Haseltine.
  • $25 from Stephanie Faulkner.
  • $25 from Jon Breyfogle.
  • $100 from Gurjit Nijjar. Wow! Wow! Biggest ever!
  • $10 from Alan Johnson
  • $7 from Diane Depuydt
  • $25 from Philip Tabanao
2010 $144 est $150
  • I stopped adding comments after each name; they are all very much appreciated!
  • $50 from Don Bradley.
  • $60 cash on one hike! $20 from Diane and Pete Alexandrov, $20 from Glenn Mercurio, and $20 from another friend. (sorry please email me your name for credit - I could read me notes and it's one of 2 people. doh!!)
  • $20 from Charles Haseltine.
  • $25 from Marcia Beauchamp.
  • $5 from Mike Fitzpatrick.
2009 $126+ $120
  • $20 donation from John Chute  - most awesome - thanks!!
  • $50 donation from Steve Eastwood - awesome, thank you!!
  • $5 donation from Casey Morrigan - excellent, thanks!
  • $25 donation from Taryn Lewis - wonderful, thank you!!
  • $10 donation from Laurie Winkler - excellent, thanks!!
  • $10 donation from John Chute - wow, again, thanks!!
2008 $120+ $55
  • $10 donation from Tina Sun - thanks!!
  • $10 donation from Marianne Etchell Allen - thanks!!
  • $25 donation from Chad Barker - thanks!!
  • $10 donation from Laurie Winkler - thanks!!
2007 $120+ $50
  • $50 donation from Steven Eastwood - thanks!! An awesome holiday surprise.
2006 $120+ $0  
2005 $960+time $0 DSL and web hosting through sonic was expensive!
2004 & earlier n/a $0 We didn't track expenses for previous years.

 

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