[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation to make a donation to FreeNode

[Anthere]

Anthony wrote:
> On 11/3/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>The Wikimedia Foundation will make next week a one-time donation of USD
>>5,000 dollars to the Peer-Directed Project Center, the non-profit
>>organization which operates FreeNode
>>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode).
>>
>>This donation recognizes the tremendous value of online chat to the
>>Wikimedia community, on the level of projects, languages and chapters,
>>as well as to the Foundation itself. We hope it will help the servers to
>>keep running smoothly :-)
>>
> 
> A great idea.  I had thought the idea of donating to freenode had
> already been brought up and rejected, but looking back it seems that
> while Angela opposed making the donation, you and Jimbo were in favor
> of it.

Nod. This said, this donation was suggested by Erik very soon after he 
was elected.

ant

> Anyway, a $5000 one-time donation seems quite appropriate.  Freenode
> has been very helpful to the Wikimedia projects.
> 
> Anthony