[Foundation-l] Isn't it getting to be time...

[Delphine Ménard]

On 5/25/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Donations through PayPal are roughly between 25 to 35 000 dollars per
> week. It might be interesting to generalize the idea of putting the
> permanent donation link at the top of pages.

Errrr, per week? If it's per week, we can go and sleep a little more
soundly. If I remember weel, it is per month rather.

> In terms of getting funds, we try to get more organised to collect funds
> from those using our content or setting up search systems on our db.
> Danny also made a pretty active search of sponsors for Wikimania. I also
> tried to strongly suggest donating to a couple of organisations through
> the special project committee, but with no success as of today :-(
>
> In terms of expenses, we definitly have Wikimania coming.

Thanks to Danny, yes, the operating budget of Wikimania is on the way
to being covered.

>
> Two techco meetings took place two weeks ago and a couple of days ago,
> so I suppose we can expect new order pretty soon :-)
>
> There are some pretty advanced discussions to hire staff as well. CEO,
> legal in-house counsel as well as more assistants to help with OTRS and
> phone answering.
>
> So, I'd say we would definitly benefit from a fundraising. It is not
> *urgent* but we need to anticipate before it becomes urgent.

Indeed.

Delphine
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