[Foundation-l] suggestion for coming fundraising drives

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would you think we can provide such information, particularly what
> happend or would happen with the money ? I think it is worthy to
> inform on the WMF site.

I keep track of spending and do comparisons of actual vs budgeted spending. The
board has simply not got around to approving what I've done so I can
prominently link to it yet (probably since I haven't pushed much for that). 
 
> And I think it would be useful for us to why we need those fund drives
> and daily donation (but now I am not sure where is the best place). I
> hesitate to say it, but there are many people at least in Japan a
> non-profit organisation should rely on donation at any rate (I should
> add hereby the concept of non-profit organisation is relatively
> unfamiliar here in Japan) . Once I read a Ja sysop or someone under
> his name expressed his opposition toward  fund drives (not on the site
> though)  and accusation the foundation "raised" the price --- is there
> anything we can do to avoid misunderstanding ?

Simple: We are too popular and servers are not free. 

-- mav


		
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