Who is responsible for the code behind the fundraiser? I have a few proposals he or she may like. Its too late for this fundraiser but would help on the future ones
Additionally I think the foundation should set a donation goal for the end of the year. Not as a begathon like the 6 mil one but something more discrete (completely unadvertised). People will continue to donate if they see a new goal. - White Cat On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > A quick update: the "Thank You" banner is currently scheduled to stay > up until January 9, 4 PM PST. We're keeping it up a while longer in > part because it's the first work week after the holidays for many > people, and in part because it's an opportunity for chapters to get > some more visibility (we may have reached our goals ahead of time, but > the chapters were operating under the assumption that the fundraiser > would continue until January 15). As explained in the "Thank You" > letter, the funds donated to WMF from now until the end of the fiscal > year will go into our reserve fund and will help us to not live from > hand to mouth as we head into the new fiscal. We'd always planned to > raise at least $1.3M in reserve funding throughout the fiscal year. > > Obviously we're thrilled by the success of the fundraiser: many thanks > to Rand and the rest of the team here for making it happen. :-) > Special _huge, huge_ thanks to Casey and all the translation > volunteers for their help throughout the process. It's hard to > overstate the value of the volunteer contributions of time and effort > to the fundraiser, and I think it speaks to the strength of our > sustainability model. :-) > > As always, there'll be lots to learn & improve as well. We'll start > preparing some follow-up reports and analysis soon. (We still intend > to share raw data files with the community, but we have to do some > more clean-up, especially on check data, before it'll be useful.) In > the meantime, if you already have some thoughts & immediate comments > on the fundraiser -- what worked, what didn't, what we should focus on > -- please feel free to post them in this thread. > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
