On 18/01/2012 14:14, Alec Meta wrote:
Why does the
Board of Trustees think that WMF should raise the «maximum
possible amount of money»?
Why not ask for what is needed and nothing more?
Because we don't expect to be JUST Wikipedia forever. We have a lot
of innovation ahead of us. If we stand still, we'll be overtaken.
With more funding, we can responsibly begin to expand beyond the
confines of Wikipedia-as-we-currently-know-it.
99% of the work in the movement is done by volunteers - for free. Money
is not the alpha&omega of our movement. That's why we should maybe ask
ourself if raising the «maximum possible amount of money» is a the most
important thing to do.
If we collected only what we need to stay afloat, then
all we'll do is
stay afloat. I hope in future we'll expand and see a corresponding
increase in donations.
We already collect more money as what we need to «stay afloat»... But I
agree this is not our goal.
Emmanuel