On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:02:08 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Would you think we can provide such information, particularly what happend or would happen with the money ? I think it is worthy to inform on the WMF site. And I think it would be useful for us to why we need those fund drives and daily donation (but now I am not sure where is the best place). I hesitate to say it, but there are many people at least in Japan a non-profit organisation should rely on donation at any rate (I should add hereby the concept of non-profit organisation is relatively unfamiliar here in Japan) . Once I read a Ja sysop or someone under his name expressed his opposition toward fund drives (not on the site though) and accusation the foundation "raised" the price --- is there anything we can do to avoid misunderstanding ?

Aphaia wrote: It is understandable that people in different countries can look at the concept of a "non-profit organisation" in different ways. It would be interesting if you told us what Japanese people understand with this idea? How do they understand the best way of financing such an organisation? Is there a form of organisation that makes more sense to the Japanese mind? Ec