[Foundation-l] Q1 2005 Fund Drive was a phenomenal success

[Sulev Iva]

I tried to donate by PayPal too, but failed because Estonia as very-very many (maybe most) other countries is missing in the 
PayPal list where one must choose his country before donating. :(

Sulev

3.03.2005 16:50:35, Pedro Fayolle <pfayolle at gmail.com> kirot':

>I would particularly like to see some better directions for people no
>in the "main world". Even though I do my earnings in a rather
>devaluated currency I would have liked to make a donation this time. I
>admit I didn't put enough effort to figure it out on my own, but it is
>also a bit trickier for me here, esp. since I don't own a credit card.
>
>Congratulations to all on the huge success!
>
>Pedro
>
>
>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 06:31:41 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
><maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> --- Neil Harris <usenet at tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>> > That needed _improving_?
>> 
>> Off the top of my head; faster updates at least for PayPal data using some kind
>> of script (in development), launching more national chapters that have tax
>> exempt status (this seems to have greatly increased donations from Germany),
>> overall a more automated process (running this drive took me 6 to 8 hours per
>> day - which is not sustainable in our volunteer framework), development of
>> translatable interwiki templates that could be used to update
>> [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] on all wikis at once (doing this wiki by wiki is
>> *insane*), some improvements in the PayPal donation forms (such as a drop down
>> currency selection option instead of separate pages for each money type), and a
>> better way to keep the foundation wiki updated (having separate meta and
>> foundation wiki copies of the same pages is hard to deal with).
>> 
>> I'm sure there are other areas of improvement as well but so far I mostly see a
>> need for efficiency improvements and faster/better feedback to donors and the
>> community.
>> 
>> > Seriously, I can think of only one real
>> > improvement needed, which is the ability to give directly using credit
>> > cards, which I think would have further increased the rate and scope of
>> > donations -- but I believe you already have that task in hand.
>> 
>> Such a system is in development and almost certainly will be up for the next
>> fund drive.
>> 
>> > Congratulations on a job well done.
>> 
>> Thank you. :) Everybody who helped in this fund drive should proud.
>> 
>> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
>> 
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