[Wikimedia-l] Dillon gallery?

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2013/8/30 Renata St <renatawiki at gmail.com>:
> Hi Lisa,
>
> Thanks for the reply, I never doubted it's WM event -- it just majorly
> surprised me and I still have a bunch of questions:
>
> 1) is this the first fundraising event? I have never heard of them before...

FWIW, here is a Signpost article about a previous fundraising event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-10-18/News_and_notes#Wikipedia_community_gathers_for_fundraising_event

> 2) what's going to happen at that event and why should I go? Invitation had
> not a peep about that...
> 3) why there is nothing about it anywhere?
> 4) when did this policy change come about? I know Sue was quite adamantly
> against it...
>
> Thanks!
> Renata
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Lisa Gruwell <lgruwell at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Renata St and Dan-
>>
>> I just wanted to assure you that there is no change in fundraising
>> strategy. WMF raises that great majority of its funds from online
>> donations, with most of them being under USD $30.
>>
>> We also raise approximately $6 million from foundations and major donors.
>> The guidance for this comes from the Revenue Plan that was developed in the
>> five year strategic plan (page 17):
>>
>>  “In addition to seeking increased support from community donations,
>> Wikimedia will continue to raise limited but critical funds from
>> foundations, major donors, and licensing and other business partnerships.”
>>
>> Yes, the event at the Dillion Gallery is our. That said, we focus the
>> lion’s share of our work on the online donation model.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Lisa Seitz Gruwell
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Dan Collins <en.wp.st47 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > What are you talking about? A quick Google reveals no evidence that the
>> > Wikimedia Foundation and the Dillon Gallery have any association, apart
>> > from we have a wiki page on them. Who is the mail from - WMF or a
>> chapter?
>> > Do you often receive snail mail from them? If not, do you have any
>> evidence
>> > that you haven't fallen victim to an elaborate scam? What is an
>> > "invitation(?)" and how does it differ from an invitation?
>> >
>> > To borrow your TL;DR, In short: huh???
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Renata St <renatawiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi, so I got this snail mail with an invitation(?) to an event(?) at
>> > Dillon
>> > > Gallery on Oct 1 for a suggested(?) donation of $500... and it left me
>> > > confused more than anything else.
>> > >
>> > > What's the event about? I can't find anything anywhere else (not that I
>> > > looked very hard). I understand it's a fundraising function, but
>> besides
>> > > that? If I go there, what am I going to get (other than Cocktails &
>> Hors
>> > > d'oeuvres)?
>> > >
>> > > What if I don't do the suggested donation?
>> > >
>> > > On a whole different level, since when does Wikimedia do fundraising
>> > > events? I thought it was a policy to abandon attempts to gain major
>> > donors
>> > > and to focus on the $10 donations? When did that change?
>> > >
>> > > In short: huh???
>> > >
>> > > R.
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