[Foundation-l] Q1 2005 Fund Drive was a phenomenal success

[Pedro Fayolle]

I would particularly like to see some better directions for people no
in the "main world". Even though I do my earnings in a rather
devaluated currency I would have liked to make a donation this time. I
admit I didn't put enough effort to figure it out on my own, but it is
also a bit trickier for me here, esp. since I don't own a credit card.

Congratulations to all on the huge success!

Pedro


On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 06:31:41 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
<maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Neil Harris <usenet at tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> > That needed _improving_?
> 
> Off the top of my head; faster updates at least for PayPal data using some kind
> of script (in development), launching more national chapters that have tax
> exempt status (this seems to have greatly increased donations from Germany),
> overall a more automated process (running this drive took me 6 to 8 hours per
> day - which is not sustainable in our volunteer framework), development of
> translatable interwiki templates that could be used to update
> [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] on all wikis at once (doing this wiki by wiki is
> *insane*), some improvements in the PayPal donation forms (such as a drop down
> currency selection option instead of separate pages for each money type), and a
> better way to keep the foundation wiki updated (having separate meta and
> foundation wiki copies of the same pages is hard to deal with).
> 
> I'm sure there are other areas of improvement as well but so far I mostly see a
> need for efficiency improvements and faster/better feedback to donors and the
> community.
> 
> > Seriously, I can think of only one real
> > improvement needed, which is the ability to give directly using credit
> > cards, which I think would have further increased the rate and scope of
> > donations -- but I believe you already have that task in hand.
> 
> Such a system is in development and almost certainly will be up for the next
> fund drive.
> 
> > Congratulations on a job well done.
> 
> Thank you. :) Everybody who helped in this fund drive should proud.
> 
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
> 
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