>From an administrative point of view, I'd like to hold off on talking about direct debits until we get a proper hold on the impact they're having. At present, we're still very much in the experimental stage. We're also in the middle of the fundraiser agreement discussions with the WMF, and although this may have changed by Wikimania 2012, I'm not really comfortable talking hard figures.

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On 7 June 2012 16:59, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7 June 2012 16:02, Roger Bamkin <victuallers@gmail.com> wrote:
> agree with WSC - the direct debit was the fundraising coup and it was
> Chris's "over achievement". £1m was the plan - collecting half of next years
> was just showing off

I agree. Direct Debits were the big thing I was disappointed not to
achieve during my time on the board, and was very pleased to see Chris
succeed where I had failed. The rest of the movement seems to have
some difficulty understanding the important of direct debits (I think
there are a very British way of giving to charity), but they really
are very important.

I look forward to the point (which may only be a couple of years away)
when our goal in the annual fundraiser has nothing to do with the next
year's income, because we already know we'll be getting that, and
we're focusing on increasing revenue in the long term.

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