Thanks, William.

As for fiscal sponsors, someone official should put out a request for quotation to wepay.com, paypal, and moneybookers, in a way in which all three understand that they are getting the same RFQ (e.g., by a simultanious email to the official address of all of them.) You should put an request for sponsorship in the RFQ.

There are some ideas about a raising sponsorships with various forms of recognition and perks locally at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2012/Bids/Stanford#Securing_sp...

On Sep 6, 2010 4:42 PM, "William Pietri" william@scissor.com wrote:

Jon,

Venture capitalists sponsor public events just like any other organizations which want ...

Absolutely. In particular, they like to get their name in front of promising entrepreneurs, as finding interesting companies is essential for their business. So if you pitch them, I'd try to find some reason they can see it as a useful marketing expense.

Alternatively, rather than pitching venture capital funds, it might be worth talking to individual venture capitalists, who are just the sort of person to be fascinated by Wikis. For example, Mitch Kapor and Vinod Khosla are both tech investors and major Wikipedia donors.

William

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