Hear ye! Hear ye!
Dear friends,
We all know PoE is a child of our very own Chris and Sarah, and we also know they've been working hard at maintaining this website and forum, along with moderators and other contributors (we all know who they are, right?).
It goes without saying there are expenses made other than the work of all the PoErs; there is server storage space that needs to be rent to store all the pictures we upload, for instance, among others.
Although some expenses can be covered by advertising made by other companies on the website, we were thinking it would be of great use if PoE could finance itself, at least partly.
The idea is to have some exclusive PoE items, members and third parties could acquire only through PoE, hence contributing to finance our beloved website. There are many different items that could fit this purpose but one in particular would make an awful lot of sense, if you ask me.
Since PoE is all about sharing beautiful pictures of England, what if we were to print an exclusive 2010 PoE picture calendar with pictures from our contributors? (Either a wall calendar or a desk calendar, or both is still to be determined, and we could have a new edition each year, of course.)
For now what we need is for all of you to give us feedback on these thoughts and ideas so we can determine if the basic conditions can be gathered to make it happen.
What we need to know for now is:
1) Would you buy it?
2) Would you be willing to contribute with your pictures?
Any profit made would help finance PoE. (Of course copyrights would be respected and the pictures would be credited to you. Pictures would be submitted by their authors and voted by all, so chosing them would be as a transparent process as possible.)
Your opinions and thoughts count and are valued, so please share them and try and keep this thread on topic.
We will be updating this thread accordingly with the feedback we receive.
Thank you for reading and thank you in advance for your opinions!
Edited by: Nela at:26th February 2009 10:15 
That's why I'm bringing up this issue several months before there's any real interest in the 2010 calendars.Let's say we want to start selling them in middle November 2009, then we need to have the pictures picked no later than by middle October so we can order a sample and make the appropriate changes, if needed. Then we have to advertise the calendars and wait for people to make a pre-order, so we can finance the investment and this takes time. 
