Can I suggest that we as individual chapters &quot;learn to crawl before we try to walk&quot;? Talking about getting pan-European sponsorship for someting, especially when we don&#39;t even know what that that thing is, is going to be very difficult... Why don&#39;t we look at what the European chapters are doing:<br>

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.<br>

<br>-Liam [[witty lama]]<br><br clear="all"><a href="http://wittylama.com/blog">wittylama.com/blog</a><br>Peace, love &amp; metadata<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 May 2010 05:38, Morgan Chan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:morgand536@wikimedia.hk">morgand536@wikimedia.hk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

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.<div>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Tzu-Chiang Liou <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tcliou@gmail.com" target="_blank">tcliou@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">


Our experience was that it&#39;s easier to get sponsor on project-based cooperation. And it&#39;s a bit challenge to find &quot;pure&quot; donation at chapter level. Don&#39;t know what you have in mind, though. I guess some sponsors on regional wikipedia academy would be great, don&#39;t have to be long term, the purpose is to build our creditability gradually. <br>




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Email: tcliou@ {<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>|<a href="http://iis.sinica.edu.tw" target="_blank">iis.sinica.edu.tw</a>}<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Morgan Chan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:morgand536@wikimedia.hk" target="_blank">morgand536@wikimedia.hk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>




</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div>Dear all:<div><br></div><div>I already have some target companies and organizations. But I need your approval before i started to contact them.</div>




<div>What kind of sponsorship you guys want? How long? How to?</div><div>
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