On 1/7/07, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Oldak Quill schreef:
On 07/01/07, Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org wrote:
Hello everyone.
Just for a head up (or down)
First, I wanted to announce to all that there will be no more matching donors in that fundraiser. This is due to a variety of reasons, including, but not limited to, the reaction of some members in the community.
Regardless of whether I agreed with the Virgin notice or not, this is an excellent move on behalf of the Foundation. It demonstrates the Foundation's responsiveness to Wikimedians and that there is no bureaucratic disconnect (which is always a worry when a project like ours begins to organise into formalised institutions and structures).
Thanks Florence and the rest of the team. You're doing an excellent job.
Hoi, I am afraid you did not read the whole of Florence her e-mail, or you only read what you want to read.. "Fourth, we'll go on with limited funds. Limited means we'll go delaying certain issues. That's life !"
This means that things that are deemed necessary will not happen or will not happen in the near future for lack of funds.
Ant didn't say anything about the issues which were delayed being *necessary*. Framing it that way seems unfair.
There have been no serious proposals on how the WMF can make the money that it requires. And where you see responsiveness, I fail to see how our aim is indeed best served when you consider our growth and our lack of current funding.
You seem to be taking as a given that the Virgin Unite sponsorship had an overall positive effect on the amount of funds raised. It seems to me that isn't necessarily the case. There certainly has been a dropoff of raised funds recently, though at least some of this is likely simply due to it being a new tax year for most US donors.
Anthony