On May 29, 2014, at 5:41 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote:
victor,
thats great to read about the impact of the project. the idiegogo link says it raised 3'370 out of 232'000, the wmf grant link states it raised 3'000. why there is a difference?
I think that indiegogo takes like 10% of whatever you raise if you don't meet your goal, I think it's like 3% if you do meet your goal
i was also wondering that in the report your partner states: 20-30% of the wikireaders could not hold any charge so 600 usd where used to mail them back to the vendor. while the amazon site for selling the devices says: the batteries last for a couple of months then need to be replaced.
Yeah if you read a few of the amazon reviews some say that some devices just didn't work at all, and some drain the battery way too fast. We had a lot of reports of this, people were ashamed to say so because the wikireaders were gifts!.
Aislinn felt that because of this issue the project was a failure and we shouldn't do the same with these devices again since we were shipping these devices to mostly poor people who can't afford to keep buying batteries. Also we found that AAA batts aren't the same quality everywhere, high might contribute to the high fail rate.
The value of the whole thing is the survey data in the google doc in the report
rupert
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Victor Grigas vgrigas@wikimedia.org wrote: My significant other applied for a grant and got 500 Wikireaders distributed to 3 schools:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Aislinn_Dewey/Distribute_WikiReaders_...
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-distribute-wikireaders-and-provide-a...
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 May 2014 15:04, Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org wrote: ... So that Wil's interest manifested around the time Lila was announced as the next ED seems to me to be perfectly natural, even if I have expressed serious concerns about *how* that interest was expressed. -- Marc
There is a big difference between your partner having an interest in your organization, and going on to publish public complaints about the staff that you have complete authority and responsibility for employing.
I may be wrong, perhaps someone has some examples of where this worked out well? The only examples from history and the political world I can recall, did not.
Fae
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