[Foundation-l] Fundraising season launch

[Anthere]

 > Jimmy, Florence - shall we prepare a detailed vision statement on
 > Board Wiki? I volunteer to take a first stab at the structure.

The vision and mission is listed in the programm of the board retreat.
The board retreat start next week.
I think we best wait till the board retreat to start working on it.
of course, it would be real cool if you can take a first stab at it !


 > Samuel - can you pass on some promotional materials re: the OLPC
 > partnership to the Fundraising Committee?

I am not favorable to the concept of making a joint fundraising with 
another organisation. As for OLPC, they were already part of our last 
press release in august...

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Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 10/9/06, 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.
> 
> 
> Yes, it seems absolutely essential to me that the communication
> strategy is carefully planned _before_ we ask for money.
> 
> What have the Foundation and the Chapters accomplished so far? What is
> the status of our work to bring Wikimedia to developing countries?
> What have our expenses been? (Get audited financial reports out.) What
> expenses do we foresee? What strategic projects are around the corner?
> What is the state of the projects besides Wikipedia, the small
> languages?
> 
> The last thing I want is another "WE NEED MORE SERVERS" fundraiser.
> 
> So, in order to do this properly:
> 
> Brad - can we assume that the financial statements will be published
> before Nov 1? Can you work on outlining some expenses over the next 6
> months you see as critical, in broad terms (staff, hardware, etc.)?
> 
> Tim - when are the static dumps going to be ready?
> 
> Samuel - can you pass on some promotional materials re: the OLPC
> partnership to the Fundraising Committee?
> 
> Delphine - can you compile a report on chapter activity (max 10K,
> pictures would be nice)? What projects were completed, what chapters
> were set up?
> 
> Jimmy, Florence - shall we prepare a detailed vision statement on
> Board Wiki? I volunteer to take a first stab at the structure.
> 
> Sabine - could you write a little report regarding translation
> projects, and future activities you can envision in this area?
> 
> I would suggest early November as a launch of the fundraising drive. I
> would like to see some new functionality implemented for this
> fundraising drive as well, e.g. the ability to donate directly from
> any Wikimedia project page, as well as a more prominent display of
> donor comments above a certain amount.
> 
> Most importantly, however, I want us to start working very soon on a
> decent appeal for support and report of activity so far. I understand
> that donor attention is limited, so we need to have a very short
> general appeal, but those who care should be able to find detailed
> information about what we are doing and why we need support.
> 
> Ideally, the information we compile here should be useful to approach
> organizations and wealthy individuals, beyond just a general appeal to
> the masses.
> 
> Does that sound reasonable? :-)