-- Илья -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Moscow Wiki-conference sponsorship Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:56:28 +1100 From: Angela Beesley angela@wikia.com To: Ilya Schurov ilya.schurov@noo.ru References: 48F452EA.1000609@noo.ru Hi Ilya, 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. 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? Kind regards, Angela -- Angela Beesley Wikia.com, co-founder 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. >