[Foundation-l] Fundraising totals as of Nov. 15, 2007 @ 12:20 PM (EST)

Fri Nov 16 06:54:40 UTC 2007

one thing comes to my mind also: be partner in an EU fp7 application.
technical goal: distribution of contents and remerging, i.e. use some kind
of peer-to-peer technology + distributed version control.

especially important with low network bandwith.

rupert.

On Nov 15, 2007 11:17 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Brian McNeil wrote:
> > Are there any plans for donation matching this campaign?
> >
> > I know a lot of people would be unhappy to see something like "Microsoft
> > matches today's donations" in the sitenotice, but it'd be an incentive
> to
> > take money off a company people don't like. :) I'm sure the Gates
> Foundation
> > could be persuaded to support a few days if you pitch it as, among other
> > things, providing a resource for people in the 3rd world who end up with
> > OLPC machines.
>
> Actually, I am not sure.
> But... I'll tell you more next week.
> I am currently in Zambia, at a workshop organized by Cornell University
> and funded by the Gate Foundation, to work out grant proposals to the
> Gate Foundation. We should give back our copies tomorrow morning. We
> would be potential partners in a request related to the production of
> Wikibooks in Agriculture. That type of things is totally within the
> scope of stuff they support, but I am not sure we would get much money
> of it (who knows...), mostly content.
> However, I think we'll propose tomorrow 18 proposals and they indicated
> they would probably pick up 3 of them.
>
> I took the opportunity to ask them examples of things they were funding,
> and of things they were NOT funding. Clearly, you do not get to them in
> just saying "do you have money for us", it needs to be a little bit more
> specific :-)
> Big emphasis is put on how projects change the life of small holders,
> and in particular of women.
>
> At the same time, I have a talk planned with one of the two program
> leader of the Gate Foundation present at this workshop. Should have been
> today, but I guess we ran out of time.
>
> ant
>
> >
> >
> > Brian McNeil
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> > [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Cary Bass
> > Sent: 15 November 2007 18:25
> > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> > Subject: [Foundation-l] Fundraising totals as of Nov. 15,2007 @ 12:20 PM
> > (EST)
> >
> > Hi all, weekly updated totals.
> >> *Fundraising totals as of Nov. 15, 2007 @ 12:20 PM (EST)*
> >>
> >> *Contributions Summary
> >> <http://donate.wikimedia.org/en/forward/emailref/22>*
> >>
> >> *Note:* Dates begin and end at 0:00 (UTC + 2), or 5:00 PM (EST).
> >> Donation figures are based on raw data and may not accurately match up
> >> with sitenotice on the various Wikimedia projects. Also, the totals do
> >> not include donations totalling less than US$1.
> >>
> >> Date         Number of
> >> Contributions        Amount of
> >> Contributions
> >> in USD       Average
> >> in USD
> >> Total        22763   681,388.14      29.93
> >> 2007-10-22   2       100.00  50.00
> >> 2007-10-23   1676    43,092.26       25.71
> >> 2007-10-24   1392    39,062.56       28.06
> >> 2007-10-25   1029    26,993.66       26.23
> >> 2007-10-26   1146    29,702.43       25.92
> >> 2007-10-27   967     27,984.23       28.94
> >> 2007-10-28   931     26,788.93       28.77
> >> 2007-10-29   785     22,096.44       28.15
> >> 2007-10-30   732     19,993.76       27.31
> >> 2007-10-31   765     24,634.37       32.20
> >> 2007-11-01   670     18,957.87       28.30
> >> 2007-11-02   592     28,661.97       48.42
> >> 2007-11-03   525     19,038.52       36.26
> >> 2007-11-04   1180    36,447.15       30.89
> >> 2007-11-05   1414    40,499.57       28.64
> >> 2007-11-06   1192    38,292.60       32.12
> >> 2007-11-07   1350    39,084.81       28.95
> >> 2007-11-08   1063    34,930.17       32.86
> >> 2007-11-09   971     30,310.51       31.22
> >> 2007-11-10   912     28,355.23       31.09
> >> 2007-11-11   858     26,979.58       31.44
> >> 2007-11-12   784     23,748.94       30.29
> >> 2007-11-13   675     17,891.55       26.51
> >> 2007-11-14   656     22,015.78       33.56
> >> 2007-11-15   496     15,725.26       31.70
> >>
> >>
> >> Currency     Number of
> >> Contributions        Amount of
> >> Contributions
> >> in USD       Average
> >> in USD
> >> Total        22763   681,388.14      29.93
> >> AUD  479     13,694.51       28.59
> >> BGN  3       29.18   9.73
> >> CAD  712     22,477.91       31.57
> >> CHF  258     11,913.00       46.17
> >> CZK  95      1,458.75        15.36
> >> DKK  140     3,006.30        21.47
> >> EEK  1       1.83    1.83
> >> EUR  6081    153,580.00      25.26
> >> GBP  1259    37,918.27       30.12
> >> HKD  53      1,488.71        28.09
> >> HUF  18      345.50  19.19
> >> ILS  1       8.69    8.69
> >> JPY  548     19,901.50       36.32
> >> NOK  105     3,578.51        34.08
> >> NZD  49      1,229.84        25.10
> >> PLN  114     1,886.56        16.55
> >> RON  5       45.26   9.05
> >> SEK  172     4,842.41        28.15
> >> SGD  68      1,623.20        23.87
> >> TWD  1       2.17    2.17
> >> USD  12600   402,249.80      31.92
> >> ZAR  1       106.24  106.24
> >>
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