Just an idea so people can actually *see* what their money is used for: Someone go to the server farm with a digital camera and take a picture of our assorted hardware, with Jimbo in the middle, or Brion :-)
Then put it up on the fundraising page, saying "that's all we have, we need a lot more to make wikipedia really fast and reliable".
Magnus
Delirium wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
In my opinion, we are going to need another $100,000 of equipment by the end of the year, *and* we can *easily* raise that from donations from the general public.
I think we'll need a decent justification of that to make sure everyone understands why we need the money and what we're going to do with it. $100,000 is a *lot* of money, and I can imagine at least some people will be skeptical that it's entirely necessary---we have to give them at least some plausible reason to believe that it's really not possible to run the site reasonably well on, say, $50,000 worth of equipment instead (which would still be a lot of equipment!). At the very least a proposed parts list with some explanation of why we need the various parts (and can't do with cheaper replacement for the very-expensive ones) would help---even non-techie people who aren't going to read it all the way through will be somewhat mollified by at least seeing that we've taken the time to put something like that up.
-Mark
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