[Foundation-l] The Paypal donation notice is very distracting

Sat Dec 16 19:11:44 UTC 2006

Cohesion - you bet.  We need to buy equipment and expand bandwidth as 
soon as possible.  We have been barely keeping up.

cohesion wrote:
> On 12/16/06, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>   
>> We'll be tweaking the notice a lot over the next few days, but it may,
>> at times, get more "ugly" than you would like or even stay that way,
>> depending on whether statistics indicate that it is necessary. The
>> tiniest of notices is clearly not sufficient to raise the money we
>> need. If you want to work without the notice, click the little
>> [dismiss] link at the bottom right corner.
>> --
>> Peace & Love,
>> Erik
>>     
>
> I haven't seen anyone else ask this question, so I will go ahead. Is
> there a pressing need for funds right now? Because if not I'm not
> really clear on why we would do a fundraiser weeks before Christmas is
> celebrated by so many of our would-be donors. I'm sure this has been
> brought up, but could someone clarify it again?
>
> Judson
> [[:en:User:Cohesion]]
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