Ivo Köthnig wrote:
Gathering money is the first step. Since we do not know exacly, how much money this will be, we can not exactly plan, what to do with this money.
Gathering money is not the first step, then. It would be irresponsible for us to gather money without a plan for what to do with the money.
Some money is needed for the organisation itself. For example each year we have to held a meeting, and every member has to be informed. We actually dont know if it is allowed to use e-mail for that (what we would prefer), but if not we have to use snail-mail, and for that reason we would need at least 1? per member each year.
I will gladly provide funds for anything of that nature. I would prefer that we keep all overhead for the use of donor funds to an absolute minimum for as long as possible.
But as you can imagine it makes no sence to think about all that in detail, since we do not know, if we collect enough money to finance that.
I think you have it exactly backwards. Collecting money with no specific plan for what is to be done with it is not a good idea at all.
There is nothing to prevent Europeans from being members of the international Wikimedia Foundation, either. There is nothing to prevent the international Wikimedia Foundation from engaging in any or all of the kinds of activities that you mentioned, either, either in Europe or in America.
--Jimbo