Hi,

As you all have probably seen, our budget is seriously increasing every trimester.

It is my personal view that we cannot anymore entirely rely on donations by visitors, but must seriously seek other sources of income.

Last year, we were offered two grants and one prize, and a third grant of 40 000 dollars was just offered.

These grants make the difference between succeeding to run the site,

or not.

We need to pay more attention to grants. Most require quite a bit of work, but the result is really worth it.

For this reason, a meeting will be held on this sunday, 4 PM UTC. If you wish to participate, please come over to #wikimedia, we'll find a quiet room to host us.

While the meeting is open, I or Angela or Danny reserve the right to kindly ask a visitor to leave the room if necessary. We wish to involve people as much as possible, but only seriously interested and trusted people :-)

Topics will be * feedback on current grant requests (Danny) * discussion over new possible grants * Decision to seek for a couple ones. * Teams setting up.

In particular, last year, we thought of asking a NEH grant, but the deadlines were too short. We might try again this year. The work to do is not only setting up figures, but there is also a lot of work simply describing our project, gathering statistics or press clipings, helping on the layout, fixing typos, improving style etc...

I invite you to read http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants

and join us sunday

Anthere

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