Can I suggest that we as individual chapters "learn to crawl before we try
to walk"? Talking about getting pan-European sponsorship for someting,
especially when we don't even know what that that thing is, is going to be
very difficult... Why don't we look at what the European chapters are doing:
They have lots of common laws and common companies and common projects they
could be doing because of the European Union. But they are *first* growing
themselves within their own countries and *second*, when there are several
chapters that are big/professional, they will look at some kind of
pan-European project. I think that if we actually started to approach
external organisations now asking for money that would only make it harder
for individual chapters to get funding. Continent-wide sponsorship will
happen - but can we please wait until we are each professional enough to get
national fundraising done properly.
-Liam [[witty lama]]
Peace, love & metadata
On 6 May 2010 05:38, Morgan Chan <morgand536(a)wikimedia.hk> wrote:
Anyway, before we start our Asian project based
cooperation, we need some
money to kick start, and it is what the first sponsorship for. I think if we
can find a long-term partner for Wikimedia Asia, to support everything at
the moment, it would be very good. Of course, we need to think about what
advantages we can offer to them.
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Tzu-Chiang Liou <tcliou(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Our experience was that it's easier to get
sponsor on project-based
cooperation. And it's a bit challenge to find "pure" donation at chapter
level. Don't know what you have in mind, though. I guess some sponsors on
regional wikipedia academy would be great, don't have to be long term, the
purpose is to build our creditability gradually.
Cheers,
Tzu-Chiang
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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Morgan Chan <morgand536(a)wikimedia.hk>wrote;wrote:
Dear all:
I already have some target companies and organizations. But I need your
approval before i started to contact them.
What kind of sponsorship you guys want? How long? How to?
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