[Foundation-l] fundraising page - shouldn't we note what we are aiming for?

Fri Jul 30 00:51:28 UTC 2004

--- Marco Krohn <marco.krohn at web.de> wrote on Wikipedia-l:
> ....
> Following the first link I would like to suggest changing 
> two things:
> 
> * there still is a link to Brion Vibbers notebook fund at the very end of the
> 
> page. Don't get me wrong, Brion deserves a lot more money than he probably 
> gets through donations, but linking to a page which seems to be outdated 
> doesn't look good to me. 

The link now goes directly to a PayPal payment form instead of Brion's outdated
notebook fund page. I plan to add other developers in that section as well.
More changes and improvements are also planned for the new WMF website that
Brion is helping us set up. 

> * the fundraising page doesn't contain information how much money we are 
> aiming for. A potential donator would just see that we have ~20 K$ on our 
> account and many probably will think "well, they probably have enough money".

That is because 
1) We don't have an approved budget
2) This is not a real fund drive (the message is en.wikipedia specific)

Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO

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