Hi Angela,
Thank you for your quick reply. I have a paypal account so that would
be the easiest way for me to pay this. It doesn't matter that there's
no legal body yet.
OK. There are some problems with PayPal in Russia (actually, it does not
work here), but we believe these problems are solvable (some of the
participants live outside of Russia and are supposed to be able to
transfer the money; and there are some services which can do that too),
so I hope we will tell you our account number soon.
Would Wikia be able to get some sort of mention on the conference
materials in return? For example, our logo on the folders that are
given to attendees?
Yes, it will be our pleasure. We will include the logo to our print
materials and mention Wikia in the final press-release which will be
issued after the Conference.
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With best regards,
Ilya V. Schurov,
Moscow Wiki-conference 2008,
Organizing Committee.
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> Kind regards,
>
> Angela
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> Angela Beesley
> Wikia.com, co-founder
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> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Ilya Schurov
ilya.schurov@noo.ru wrote:
>> Hi, Angela,
>>
>> My name is Ilya Schurov (a.k.a. [[User:Ilya Voyager]] @ Wikimedia).
>>
>> You wrote that Wikia can sponsorship Russian-speaking Moscow Wiki-conference
>> 2008. We are very grateful for that. However, there can be some technical
>> problems. Unfortunately we still don't have any legal body behind us (we are
>> in the progress of registration of "Wikimedia Russia" chapter, but due to
>> some bureaucratic concerns this is not yet finished).
>>
>> So if you can transfer this money to any of Organizing Committee members, we
>> can discuss how it can be done (we have some payment systems like
>> Yandex.Money, Webmoney, etc. and I believe we can accept payments via
>> Paypal). Otherwise, if you can transfer money only to organization (legal
>> body), we can try to wait when our chapter is registered (it should be done
>> with one or two months) and return to that question, if it will be possible.
>>
>> Now we have some donations from the participants of the conference, but the
>> most of our expenses are covered by the Organizing Committee members
>> personal finances and so we would be very grateful if you can help us with
>> these expenses :)
>>
>> --
>> With best regards,
>> Ilya V. Schurov,
>> Moscow Wiki-conference 2008,
>> Organizing Committee.
>>
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