[Foundation-l] Fundraising ideas - using what we've already got

[GerardM]

Hoi,
What would be really cool if we can make a contest out of creating
these pictures. When we want to provide pictures in certain categories
for EVERY country, we can use it to stimulate interest in these
countries.. when the "enemy" has a face, it becomes more like a
"friend".

Even when a contest costs us money (a T-shirt a Certificate with the
name of the photographer and the picture on it) it also helps us raise
awareness of Commons. When we make this an anual event it will only be
bigger next year.

Yes, the photo's that are the price winners would be offered in all
the ways that are mentioned...

I am sure we can find a sponsor to pay for the prices as well ....

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 6/7/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am constantly amazed at the quality of Wikimedian photography at the
> > > Commons and we could easily bundle, say, 10 super high quality images
> > > together in a ZIP and offer "10 free computer wallpapers".
> >
> > This has worked well for a few webcomics artists: make a donation, get
> > a wallpaper. Of course, given that all our content is out there
> > anyway, people may feel a bit cheated if they don't get something
> > exclusive.
>
> I don't think so, because (A) I don't think your average "Wikipedia
> rocks, man!"-appreciative donor probably even realises that the other
> projects exist. Let's face it, half the Wikipedians don't. ;) Also
> they are essentially paying for the convenience. Of course they could
> go and get them for free (that's rather the point), but they were
> going to donate anyway, right? And hey, we make it so easy for
> them...seems like warm fuzzies all round to me.
>
> Besides being able to offer lots of PDFs of featured material from a
> range of projects in a range of languages (particularly a few European
> ones), we could also offer country/region-specific items to encourage
> parochial donations. eg. I could probably dig up 10 wallpaper-worthy
> pictures from Australia, to encourage Australian donations.
> Definitely the same with the UK, possibly NZ.
>
> I'm not taking it so much from the angle of "let's sell these" as
> "let's encourage them to donate a tiny bit more with a feelgood
> 'freebie' and simultaneously display the breadth and quality of our
> coverage which they probably didn't realise existed".
>
> Brianna
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