(personal capacity, for a moment)
I make this the...third or fourth? currently active thread on this mailing
list that has been turned into "make more money, pay more money and invest
it in credit unions".
James, I don't think there's anything you've said here that you haven't
said 2, 3, 5 or 20 times before. Regardless of if you're right or wrong -
and I'm not making a judgment call on that, because things like financial
investments are not in my skillset or domain knowledge - your suggestions
are not being put into practise. I've seen no sign from the replies that
anyone is planning on actively pursuing your (many) suggestions, for a
variety of reasons. At this point the best thing to do is probably to drop
the stick.
On 28 December 2012 17:13, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
people are not
contributing in the English language markets this
year as opposed to last
What is the evidence for that?
because of trends when the English
Wikipedia's popularity has not
significantly changed.
English projects per
http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/pageviews
November 2010: 7.6 billion
November 2011: 8.3 billion or +9%
November 2012: 9.6 billion or +15%
Along with my questions about lowered fundraising expectations which
Zack specifically asked to re-post to this list, I would also like
answers to my earlier questions about why multivariate testing can't
be used to measure donations, because all of the multivariate tests
published so far were used to measure donations. There is no doubt in
my mind from the distribution of message performance that if we tested
the remaining volunteer-submitted appeals from 2009-10, we could do
twice as well per day as we did at the beginning of this month, and
not just during these last days of the year when we are probably
sacrificing $7 million to slashed growth rates, jettisoned Fellowships
without community consultation, and salaries pegged well below that of
other Bay Area technology employers.
As for the reserve fund investment, I would like to point out that
investment in securities which are expected to return less than
inflation are a guaranteed risk that the purchasing power of donors'
funds will diminish before they are spent. As far as I can tell from
messages off list at Garfield's request, all reserve investments were
expected to perform below the rate of inflation when they were
purchased.
Sincerely,
James Salsman
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