[Foundation-l] New ideas for fundraising needed. Start here!

[Teun Spaans]

In addition, make a list of all major US and Uk charities and foudations.

make up a list of specific subjects which would appeal to them.

For example, I think it was George Soros who supported his native Hungary
with lots of grants. Perhaps he would be willing to fund an east-europe
server centre and bandwith for a few years, 2007-2009? From our statistics
at http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesRecentTrends.htm#T the sum of the
polish, russian, hungarian and cs wikis are 650Mb + 500Mb + 140Mb + 140Mb =
1,4Gb. Compare that with 1,8Gb for the german wiki, the largets wiki but
one. Not big but substantial nevertheless. Alas, statistics for en: are
absent.

It would cut down the load on our existing servercentra.

No doubt there are similar possibilities for the asian wikis, but we would
need input from them about charities from their continent. So let someone
please post a request for ideas in the chinese and japanese village pumps.

teun

On 12/28/06, Damian Finol <damian at igluve.org> wrote:
>
> David Gerard wrote:
> > On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 12/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On 28/12/06, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>> 6) Has there ever been an open call to all wikipedians to provide
> >>>> suggestions to the foundationboard of ways to receive money?
> >
> >>> Does continuously saying "our traffic level is stupidly high and costs
> >>> a fortune / everyone at our web ranking has an actual budget and
> >>> income stream / we're operating on a shoestring / we're desperately in
> >>> need of cash" count?
> >
> >> No.
> >> Did I really have to say that? ;-)
> >
> >
> > Then take it as read ;-)
> >
> > Perhaps we can get going on creative new ideas for fundraising!
> >
> > Post your idea below:
> >
> > --->
> >
> Lobby the UN for Funds, I bet UNESCO might want to get involved given
> the nature of the projects..
>
> That's all.
>
> Damian
> >
> > - d.
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