Nikola Smolenski wrote:
Florence Devouard wrote:
Office of the ED. the office of the executive director covers salary of the ED, salary of the assistant, relocation to San Francisco (eg, travel to SF to select offices etc...) and consulting (eg, fundraising consulting, communication consulting, branding consulting etc...)
Perhaps it was a bad PR idea to combine all this. Relocation, as a one-time expense could be presented separately and wouldn't give an impression of overexpensive office.
Agreed
And to be fair, I do not think that "we are saving languages" is the right pitch either. It is more sexy, but what those guys want to see are rationale, timeline, figures, proof of concept, partnerships etc... So, what we need to really work on in the near future are a "collection of grant propositions", which we can show around to philantropists. "What you will invest in" and what do you get in exchange.
One thing I was thinking about for a while: how much does Wikipedia contribute to the economy? Who could estimate it, and how could it be done? If this would be known, we could argue that Wikipedias in various languages would contribute that much to their economies.
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