On 5/25/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Donations through PayPal are roughly between 25 to 35 000 dollars per week. It might be interesting to generalize the idea of putting the permanent donation link at the top of pages.
Errrr, per week? If it's per week, we can go and sleep a little more soundly. If I remember weel, it is per month rather.
In terms of getting funds, we try to get more organised to collect funds from those using our content or setting up search systems on our db. Danny also made a pretty active search of sponsors for Wikimania. I also tried to strongly suggest donating to a couple of organisations through the special project committee, but with no success as of today :-(
In terms of expenses, we definitly have Wikimania coming.
Thanks to Danny, yes, the operating budget of Wikimania is on the way to being covered.
Two techco meetings took place two weeks ago and a couple of days ago, so I suppose we can expect new order pretty soon :-)
There are some pretty advanced discussions to hire staff as well. CEO, legal in-house counsel as well as more assistants to help with OTRS and phone answering.
So, I'd say we would definitly benefit from a fundraising. It is not *urgent* but we need to anticipate before it becomes urgent.
Indeed.
Delphine