[Foundation-l] Fundraising idea

[David Gerard]

On 08/11/06, James Forrester <james at jdforrester.org> wrote:

> I am aware that this may get derided as advertising, but I really
> don't think it's true - this is merely an extended press release, as
> it were. I think that a line (in the site notice), saying something
> like "Foo have pledged to match up to US$200,000 in our [[current
> fund-raising drive]]" instead of the current text ("Your [[continued
> donations]] keep Wikipedia running!") would be appropriate and
> understated (believe me, I'm British, "understated" is what we /do/).


We wouldn't get away with naming the company in the sitenotice - it'd
have to be a link to a page listing the matching donations. Think
that'd work for anyone?


- d.