Experiences at wmch showed that commercial sponsorship are such a low
percentage that it is questionable to put any effort at all into it. Our
unique selling point in the yearly fundraiser always was that we fully
depend on small donating and with it guarantee full independence in mindset
and content creation.
If commercial sponsorship is perceived to touch this independence it is
toxic and lowers fundraising income much more than the amount received from
commerce. But we accepted commercial sponsorship in rare cases, where we
were 100% sure that no such effect would happen. As far as I know we do not
have any official standpoint to this topic, so its my personal opinion. At
the end of the day its decided on a case by case basis.
Rupert.
Am 20.04.2012 12:55 schrieb "Sylvain Boissel" <sylvain.boissel(a)wikimedia.fr
:
Hello,
We at Wikimedia France had some discussions about what we want to ask
potential (commercial) sponsors to fund, and what conditions we can accept
from them.
I know some discussion about this occured during the last Chapters Meeting
in Berlin, but I don't know what was concluded.
As we have to decide soon to have time to send requests to potential
sponsors, we would like to have some more advice... What do you think about
commercial sponsorship ?
Best regards,
Sylvain.
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