[Foundation-l] Fundraising and misunderstanding?

Fri Dec 9 12:20:17 UTC 2011

On 9 December 2011 11:37, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not really. The Foundation has plenty of reserves.
>
> I believe the figure is that they have 6 months of operating costs in reserve.
>
> Whether you regard that as "plenty" depends on one's personality I would say.

I think it's a little more than that because they've been
underspending, and that's without making any cuts. If the fundraiser
were a complete flop (obviously, it hasn't been, and it was never
likely that it would be), I'm sure the WMF could keep Wikipedia
running for at least a year without any major problems.

We need to continue fundraising if we want to keep doing everything we
have planned and if we don't want to run dangerously close to having
an empty bank account, so the current fundraiser is certainly very
important, but the situation is far from desperate. Everything is
going as planned, and it would be extremely reckless to have planned
to let things get desperate.