I may have mentioned this before, but I'll state it again:

Wikimedia Israel has set aside funds (on the order of $3000) to support development of OpenZIM.  We hope to encourage work on the specific issues that still hamper successful deployment of right-to-left Wikipedia (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Yiddish), and I was hoping to discuss the specifics with Manuel and whoever else will be attending the upcoming conference in Berlin.

   Asaf

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Tommi Mäkitalo <tommi@tntnet.org> wrote:
Hi again,

and also this is very good. It would be really great, if we can get
sponsorship for even a part for this. Then we can concentrate better on our
work for openzim without paying for it ourself.

Tommi

Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 11:21:19 schrieb Manuel Schneider:
> Dear all,
>
> based on
> a) our first experience of 2009 and
> b) our plans for 2010 (as existing so far)
>
> I have made a budget plan for 2010.
>
> Last year we had a budget - mainly based on the estimated cost of a
> small Developers Meeting and the server cost - of 4000 CHF (~ 2800 EUR).
> We got an extra 1000 CHF (~ 700 EUR) to produce the Wikipedia DVD for
> LinuxTag.
>
> As our team grew (which is great) and we see more opportunities to
> present ourselves to fully reach our potential I have made a more
> "professional" calculation.
> The biggest difference compared to last year are the Developer Meetings.
> I have requested quotations from conference venues and used these
> figures for the budget and I calculated with 10 attendees, so these
> costs are about four times higher than 2009, when we made everything on
> our own including catering and had a room in a nearby company for free.
>
> I also added more events to participate such as Wikimedia Conference,
> LinuxTag (we were there 2009, but it was not in the budget) and Wikimania.
>
> Please review the budget and make your comments. I need your approval of
> it, so I can send it on to Wikimedia CH so we can hope to get the money.
>
> If you have more ideas for sponsors (maybe the Wikimedia Foundation
> wants to cover part of it) please speak up now.
>
> A last comment:
> This budget is quite high, but my aim was to make it a "top budget", so
> we calculate all possible costs but will always spend less money than this.
>
> Here you go: http://openzim.org/Budget_2010
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Manuel

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