CULTIVAR’s future is in your hands!
A Word from the Editor Walery Kalishev
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...E-MAGAZINE CULTIVAR - a project of our friend Walery Kalishev from Chelyabinsk, Russia. The magazine is devoted to crested, monstrose, colored, hybrid, poly and dichotomic forms of cacti and other succulents, illustrated with photos of cultivars... This is a real baby of Walery that was nourished by him and his team-mates for years. Now Cultivar needs your support, please help to save it!.. Walery Kalishev is a hydrometeorologist. He is an author of several books on weather and folk prognostication, rivers and lakes of the Urals. He's been growing cacti for more than 20 years and specializes only in colored forms. Compiler of the album "Abnormal forms of cacti and other succulents". |
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Dear friends, colleagues, cacti lovers...
We appreciate growing interest of visitors from all over the world to our magazine. We are glad that our online edition is helpful and interesting. Meanwhile, very few people realize the actual effort that keeps our favorite Magazine up and running. Please take a look at this information that not everyone is aware of…
Online magazine Cultivar is now 5 years old. It’s a long run for an online edition. Cultivar is a unique project worldwide. On our website, you will find 30 issues with 190 articles and over 1800 pictures!
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A bit of traffic statistics
People from all over the World enjoy Cultivar’s reading. We have around 3000 unique visitors per month from 70-80 countries. USA – 29.8%, Russia – 21.6%, Europe – 18.5% |
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Let’s do the math
Cultivar is a non-commercial project. It is a great joy to share our knowledge
and fun with other people, and we are happy to be able to provide our readers
from all over the world with a free information about amazing and unusual
forms of cacti, to introduce cacti hobbyists and experts to the worldwide
audience, to promote scientific news, private collections, garden clubs, shows,
even hobbies (pins, stamps, calendars, etc), and so much more!
For the past 5 years we succeeded to maintain the Magazine by means of a few
enthusiasts on their own expense. Some members of our team are volunteers;
others are sub-contractors that get paid for the job. All the expenses were
coming from the founder's pocket.
Cultivar has grown Big. We’ve got more traffic and download/upload volume (can’t stay on free or low-cost plans any more), more information to deal with, more projects and ideas to accomplish. At this point, it becomes impossible to keep it running without financing.
This financing is necessary first of all for providing a regular technical support of the edition, including:
- Hosting and Internet
- Information research, search for materials, photos
- Scientific correcting
- Technical correcting
- Translations
- Graphic design
- Layout
Average cost of one issue is $$ 663.00 (see detailed
info). We have 6 issues per year.
The magazine is maintained by a small team of Russian scientists who’s average
ANNUAL income is compared to the amount of ONE issue cost (!). Virtually,
inventive Russians!
Besides regular routine work cost of the edition, in order to continue maintenance and development of our favorite magazine, it is also necessary to upgrade our old-old equipment. Right now Cultivar is being created on these computers:
- 166Mhz / 4.3 Gb HD / 1 Mb Videocard / 14” monitor (TopTrop: Do they still exist???!!)
- Laptop Toshiba 710CDT/1/2 GB
- Dial-up internet connection
The magazine quality really requires much more than that, but we still don’t give up!
Technical upgrade needed:
- Computer
- Scanner
- Printer
Please see the complete expenses list here.
HELP WANTED!
We’ve been with you for 5 years. We loved you and worked hard for you. Now the time has come, and this is our turn to ask you, our readers, for help and support. We are hoping that you can help us to survive and to make our favorite magazine even better!
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Donations (Tax deductible!) |
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For the US Dollars, you may donate one-click using TopTropicals secure shopping cart: |
For Russian rubles, see bank information here |
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Equipment Computer, scanner, printer... |
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Support Cultivar by buying the products:
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Buy a Cultivar CD
e-mail your requests to: |
The contributors will be provided with the following (per your request):
A custom-made CD with a full Cultivar Subscription (all 30 issues)
Free advertising on Cultivar
website
Cultivar Printed Issue “Succulent” (in
English)
Posting your name on a special THANK-YOU page (please notify us if you
want to stay anonymous)
In the future Cultivar issues – coming:
- The most exciting cacti-succulent discussions going on forums
- Meeting experts and hobbyists who travel to cacti habitats for novelties
- The most interesting and important articles published in national magazines
- Complete photo gallery with over 1800 photos published in the magazine
- 2 new forums: “Reader’s Forum” and “Cacti self-made Book” – where everyone can share experience, information and photos of collection without editor’s help
- Cacti Plant Shows in Russia and other countries
Our long-term plans:
- Increase number of editions of online Cultivar to 8-10 per year
- New CD: Unusual forms of cacti and other succulents from private collections - quality pictures.
- Printed magazine Cultivar in English and Russian (see Russian edition “Cacti and other succulent plants”). Our first printed edition in English is already available: Cultivar Printed Issue “Succulent”
All these exiting news awaiting you if we can find the
way to keep the magazine running!
Thank you in advance for your help. God bless you.
Walery Kalishev, Chelyabinsk, Russia
Meet more authors of
the project
Design and hosting - Peter Lapshin
Addendum
Cultivar Online Magazine Expenses
Translation rates from http://www.gotranslators.com
and http://www.babylon-online.ru/htmls/pricelist.htm
Per 1 page of 250 words or 1800 characters with spaces, tax included
Translations and corrections
Translation to Russian $ 10.0
Translation from Russian into English $ 12.0
Editing
Russian $ 2.8
English $ 5.5
Corrections $ 1.8
Taking pictures $2.0
Technical work
Scanning: slide $ 20.4, photo $ 6.8
CD-burning $0.5
Computer layout 15% of translation cost
Internet access per hour – from $0.5 to $1.5 depending on time of the day
Hosting $ 500 per year
Issue cost calculation
22 pages - 15 in Russian, 7 in English
Translations from Russian to English 15 x $ 12 = $ 180
Editing (English) 15 x $ 6.0 = $ 90
Editing (Russian) 7 x $ 5.0 = $ 35
Corrections 22 x $ 2,5 = $ 55
Layout $ 37.5
Taking pictures 15 x $2.0 = $ 30
CD burning $0,5
Hosting - $83
Info search - $24
Dial-up connection (38 hours x $1 = $38)
Misc. technical upgrades - $20
Total: $663