Jimbo wrote:

Well, there are many other needs, so I think we can leave it up for now. But we should craft a wise list of needs to publicize for when we're up and running fast and really push for media attention via the press release.

Now that we have the money for the database server, #1 on my list would be to hire a MySQL/PHP optimization expert to optimize MediaWiki's semi-permanently disabled features. I'm sure our developers would be the first to state that hardware alone will not solve our problems.

#2 on my list would be to purchase 10 year registrations on each Wikimedia-owned domain (Wiktionary.org is due in December).

There's plenty of use for at least $20,000 right away, if we can get it.

For now a more modest push for $10,000 to cover expenses over the next six months would be more realistic, IMO. We could either try to get that in the month after initial press release distribution, and/or we could state that we won't take down the [support] message from each page until we hit the $10,000 figure. Then in another six months the [support] message goes back up and a new fundraising drive begins in concert with a new press release for some new milestone. Just some thoughts...

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)