For myself, I use Flickr and have paid for the pro account for socialmarkets.org. I’ll see if Tara could post something like that notice to the sign-up form so that people understand their options for year 2.

thanks so much for researching this for us and seeing what is possible. i figured this is what was happening, it still is a great deal and it’s true, $25 isn’t that much. i was just wondering if flickr was going pro nonprofits long term and providing services like dreamhost, or youtube, or other sites are now providing for nonprofits.

thanks for the clarification! it’s still a great deal but something i wish they would clarify more before a ton of people signup thinking they can renew at that $6 price every year instead of $25.

“The program is a one time donation for one-year pro accounts. We’re providing nonprofits who may not have known the benefits of a photo sharing community an opportunity to try it out for a year. After the one year term, non profits can choose to either renew the Pro subscription at the regular cost or use the free version of Flickr.

The free services allows you to post as many pictures as you like, as long as you don’t exceed a predetermined bandwidth limit during a given time period (currently, 100MB per month). If you pass 100MB in one month, you will have to wait until the next month to start uploading again. One other limit is the number of images that can be seen at one time, free accounts can only share 200 images at a time. The rest are still stored but can not be seen unless you delete other images or upgrade to a Pro account. When your Pro account expires, none of your photos are actually deleted they will be still stored but only show 200 images at a time.”

any info on this?