[Foundation-l] Fundraising season launch

[GerardM]

Hoi,
When we are seriously going to ask for money for specific purposes, you may
want to read what was written already a long time ago. The idea is that not
everybody is able to support specific parts of our project in the
traditional way but is able and willing to help financially what is of
specific interest to them.

A good example of this were these people who spammed our mailinglist but
were willing to donate to Wikinews, something that is not really possible
right now..

Thanks,
    GerardM

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Donations:Putting_your_money_where_your_mouth_is

On 10/10/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/10/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > As an individual (not board member), I would like to ask if it were
> > possible that the spin around the fundraising, focuses a bit on the
> > other projects, perhaps the notion of virtual library, with the
> > wikicommons and wikisource. We have the recent report of the german
> > digitization to show up as an example as how we could push things
> > forward in realm of digital libraries.
>
> It's like those charity mailshots you get. "Whilst a new database
> server costs ten thousand dollars, a donation of just five dollars
> will allow us to do ----" ;-)
>
> I agree that bringing up examples of smaller-scale projects is a good
> idea - if nothing else it'll help publicise them.
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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