Re: [Foundation-l] Raising funds without being quite so annoying to readers

2011-03-07 Thread Neil Harris
On 05/03/11 14:30, David Gerard wrote: On 5 March 2011 14:19, Neil Harrisn...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote: And also, WMF should make it possible to accept continuing donations as a subscription on a monthly basis. Even better, they should do this already!

Re: [Foundation-l] Raising funds without being quite so annoying to readers

2011-03-05 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 5 March 2011 14:05, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Picking up on the comment by Tobias about less intrusive fundraising, I would make sure we are pursuing the following: 1 Build up a past donors database, communicate with them effectively and then as long as they

Re: [Foundation-l] Raising funds without being quite so annoying to readers

2011-03-05 Thread Neil Harris
On 05/03/11 14:05, WereSpielChequers wrote: Picking up on the comment by Tobias about less intrusive fundraising, I would make sure we are pursuing the following: 1 Build up a past donors database, communicate with them effectively and then as long as they donate annually make sure they

Re: [Foundation-l] Raising funds without being quite so annoying to readers

2011-03-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 March 2011 14:19, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote: And also, WMF should make it possible to accept continuing donations as a subscription on a monthly basis. Even better, they should do this already! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Monthly_donations/en (a link from

Re: [Foundation-l] Raising funds without being quite so annoying to readers

2011-03-05 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 5 March 2011 16:12, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate that we may only be able to exclude donors who are logged in readers from banner ads. But it is better in my view to say Yes we can do that,  but you would have to tell us your username and be logged in to

Re: [Foundation-l] Raising funds without being quite so annoying to readers

2011-03-05 Thread Theo10011
WereSpielChequers, I believe we either tried or considered all those things and more. I think we established continuing donations sometime half-way through the fundraiser, it mostly depends on the payment intermediaries- Philippe and Megan really worked hard on getting it. From what I recall,