[Foundation-l] Re: fundraising page - shouldn't we note what we are aiming for?

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Daniel Mayer wrote:
> --- Marco Krohn <marco.krohn at web.de> wrote on Wikipedia-l:
> 
>>....
>>Following the first link I would like to suggest changing 
>>two things:
>>
>>* there still is a link to Brion Vibbers notebook fund at the very end of the
>>
>>page. Don't get me wrong, Brion deserves a lot more money than he probably 
>>gets through donations, but linking to a page which seems to be outdated 
>>doesn't look good to me. 
> 
> 
> The link now goes directly to a PayPal payment form instead of Brion's outdated
> notebook fund page. I plan to add other developers in that section as well.
> More changes and improvements are also planned for the new WMF website that
> Brion is helping us set up. 

May I mention that I have some ideas about what to do on this page as 
well, and things to do about the developers ? I do not do it right now, 
because it is an html page and as such hard to edit. But just in case, I 
wish to tell you that I intend to transform some points, so it would be 
better that we discuss it to avoid you being upset afterwards because we 
change everything again.

Just a thought

>>* the fundraising page doesn't contain information how much money we are 
>>aiming for. A potential donator would just see that we have ~20 K$ on our 
>>account and many probably will think "well, they probably have enough money".
> 
> 
> That is because 
> 1) We don't have an approved budget
> 2) This is not a real fund drive (the message is en.wikipedia specific)
> 
> Daniel Mayer,
> Wikimedia CFO
> 
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