[Foundation-l] Fundraising ideas - using what we've already got

Wed Jun 7 22:14:07 UTC 2006

Yes ! I like your ideas.

Good news : the board just approved the creation of the Fundraising 
Committee. Get in touch with Mav to help on it.

Mav, there was a comment made by a board member about the scope of the 
committee. Can you draft us a scope pretty quickly and let's agree on it.

Ant

Brianna Laugher wrote:
>>>I am constantly amazed at the quality of Wikimedian photography at the
>>>Commons and we could easily bundle, say, 10 super high quality images
>>>together in a ZIP and offer "10 free computer wallpapers".
>>
>>This has worked well for a few webcomics artists: make a donation, get
>>a wallpaper. Of course, given that all our content is out there
>>anyway, people may feel a bit cheated if they don't get something
>>exclusive.
> 
> 
> I don't think so, because (A) I don't think your average "Wikipedia
> rocks, man!"-appreciative donor probably even realises that the other
> projects exist. Let's face it, half the Wikipedians don't. ;) Also
> they are essentially paying for the convenience. Of course they could
> go and get them for free (that's rather the point), but they were
> going to donate anyway, right? And hey, we make it so easy for
> them...seems like warm fuzzies all round to me.
> 
> Besides being able to offer lots of PDFs of featured material from a
> range of projects in a range of languages (particularly a few European
> ones), we could also offer country/region-specific items to encourage
> parochial donations. eg. I could probably dig up 10 wallpaper-worthy
> pictures from Australia, to encourage Australian donations.
> Definitely the same with the UK, possibly NZ.
> 
> I'm not taking it so much from the angle of "let's sell these" as
> "let's encourage them to donate a tiny bit more with a feelgood
> 'freebie' and simultaneously display the breadth and quality of our
> coverage which they probably didn't realise existed".
> 
> Brianna