On 03/06/2011 12:06 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > It seems to me that we spent a year building a strategic plan, which > included huge business planning components for exactly this > conversation....
There are numbers for estimated expenses: $51M for 2014/2015 http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Expenses.png Other numbers make this seem far less certain: $30M-$70M http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_30M-70M.png A quote from http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF#Projected_Revenue: > "The primary source of revenue for Wikimedia Foundation will be > community giving (through on-line donations)" So somehow normal donations are supposed to be increasing by 500% until 2014/2015 compared to the numbers of 2009/2010... (yes, I realize that there will be a big increase in 2010/2011 with $16M already having been raised) But how this is going to happen is not described in detail: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_fundraising#Opportunities_exist My approach would be to estimate how much money we can raise, set our goals accordingly, and then look into the issue of spending that money efficiently. It seems to me that it was done the other way around: Ask what do we want to do, where do we want to spend money and how much need we, and then setting this as a fundraising goal. Then again, I'm not a financial analyst, so my concerns might be naïve (sorry for that). -- Tobias Ps.: Sorry if I missed something on Strategy Wiki. It's a large Wiki and not always super easy to find the information you need :)
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