On 6/14/06, Lord Voldemort lordbishopvoldemort@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
In the Tampa Bay area, say a 50 mile radius of the main office. Or say the USF campus, to make it even simpler.
Actually, that's a great idea. Hit up some college or university campus, find a group of 5-10 people, tell 'em you'll give 'em a few bucks (20-40... depending on how many you recruit) for stuffing envelopes for WMF for a couple of hours. Most college kids are strapped for cash and would eagerly participate. While the speed of the work may not be that of a professional company, it would be cheaper, and perhaps even spark interest in Wikimedia projects if the university newspaper ran a little story about students helping out WMF (like we need more university student contributors 8^ ) ). I don't know, just throwing out some thoughts. --LV
If you're going to go that route, you should at least pay minimum wage. I rounded up to $10/hour in my estimate.
Of course I think you could probably get 5-10 people from the USF campus just by offering them free pizza and soda and telling them it's for a good cause. And more than 5 people is probably too much unless we're talking about a volume much greater than 1000. Those paper folding machines are an enormous time-saver, and just one inexpensive one probably isn't going to support more than 5 workers.
Anthony