one thing comes to my mind also: be partner in an EU fp7 application.
technical goal: distribution of contents and remerging, i.e. use some kind
of peer-to-peer technology + distributed version control.
especially important with low network bandwith.
rupert.
On Nov 15, 2007 11:17 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Brian McNeil wrote:
Are there any plans for donation matching this
campaign?
I know a lot of people would be unhappy to see something like "Microsoft
matches today's donations" in the sitenotice, but it'd be an incentive
to
take money off a company people don't like.
:) I'm sure the Gates
Foundation
could be persuaded to support a few days if you
pitch it as, among other
things, providing a resource for people in the 3rd world who end up with
OLPC machines.
Actually, I am not sure.
But... I'll tell you more next week.
I am currently in Zambia, at a workshop organized by Cornell University
and funded by the Gate Foundation, to work out grant proposals to the
Gate Foundation. We should give back our copies tomorrow morning. We
would be potential partners in a request related to the production of
Wikibooks in Agriculture. That type of things is totally within the
scope of stuff they support, but I am not sure we would get much money
of it (who knows...), mostly content.
However, I think we'll propose tomorrow 18 proposals and they indicated
they would probably pick up 3 of them.
I took the opportunity to ask them examples of things they were funding,
and of things they were NOT funding. Clearly, you do not get to them in
just saying "do you have money for us", it needs to be a little bit more
specific :-)
Big emphasis is put on how projects change the life of small holders,
and in particular of women.
At the same time, I have a talk planned with one of the two program
leader of the Gate Foundation present at this workshop. Should have been
today, but I guess we ran out of time.
ant
Brian McNeil
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Hi all, weekly updated totals.
*Fundraising totals as of Nov. 15, 2007 @ 12:20
PM (EST)*
*Contributions Summary
<http://donate.wikimedia.org/en/forward/emailref/22>*
*Note:* Dates begin and end at 0:00 (UTC + 2), or 5:00 PM (EST).
Donation figures are based on raw data and may not accurately match up
with sitenotice on the various Wikimedia projects. Also, the totals do
not include donations totalling less than US$1.
Date Number of
Contributions Amount of
Contributions
in USD Average
in USD
Total 22763 681,388.14 29.93
2007-10-22 2 100.00 50.00
2007-10-23 1676 43,092.26 25.71
2007-10-24 1392 39,062.56 28.06
2007-10-25 1029 26,993.66 26.23
2007-10-26 1146 29,702.43 25.92
2007-10-27 967 27,984.23 28.94
2007-10-28 931 26,788.93 28.77
2007-10-29 785 22,096.44 28.15
2007-10-30 732 19,993.76 27.31
2007-10-31 765 24,634.37 32.20
2007-11-01 670 18,957.87 28.30
2007-11-02 592 28,661.97 48.42
2007-11-03 525 19,038.52 36.26
2007-11-04 1180 36,447.15 30.89
2007-11-05 1414 40,499.57 28.64
2007-11-06 1192 38,292.60 32.12
2007-11-07 1350 39,084.81 28.95
2007-11-08 1063 34,930.17 32.86
2007-11-09 971 30,310.51 31.22
2007-11-10 912 28,355.23 31.09
2007-11-11 858 26,979.58 31.44
2007-11-12 784 23,748.94 30.29
2007-11-13 675 17,891.55 26.51
2007-11-14 656 22,015.78 33.56
2007-11-15 496 15,725.26 31.70
Currency Number of
Contributions Amount of
Contributions
in USD Average
in USD
Total 22763 681,388.14 29.93
AUD 479 13,694.51 28.59
BGN 3 29.18 9.73
CAD 712 22,477.91 31.57
CHF 258 11,913.00 46.17
CZK 95 1,458.75 15.36
DKK 140 3,006.30 21.47
EEK 1 1.83 1.83
EUR 6081 153,580.00 25.26
GBP 1259 37,918.27 30.12
HKD 53 1,488.71 28.09
HUF 18 345.50 19.19
ILS 1 8.69 8.69
JPY 548 19,901.50 36.32
NOK 105 3,578.51 34.08
NZD 49 1,229.84 25.10
PLN 114 1,886.56 16.55
RON 5 45.26 9.05
SEK 172 4,842.41 28.15
SGD 68 1,623.20 23.87
TWD 1 2.17 2.17
USD 12600 402,249.80 31.92
ZAR 1 106.24 106.24
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