Re: [Wikimedia-SF] WikiConference updates -- budget
Thanks, William. As for fiscal sponsors, someone official should put out a request for quotation to wepay.com, paypal, and moneybookers, in a way in which all three understand that they are getting the same RFQ (e.g., by a simultanious email to the official address of all of them.) You should put an request for sponsorship in the RFQ. There are some ideas about a raising sponsorships with various forms of recognition and perks locally at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2012/Bids/Stanford#Securing_sponsorships On Sep 6, 2010 4:42 PM, "William Pietri" wrote: > Jon, > > Venture capitalists sponsor public events just like any other > organizations which want ... Absolutely. In particular, they like to get their name in front of promising entrepreneurs, as finding interesting companies is essential for their business. So if you pitch them, I'd try to find some reason they can see it as a useful marketing expense. Alternatively, rather than pitching venture capital funds, it might be worth talking to individual venture capitalists, who are just the sort of person to be fascinated by Wikis. For example, Mitch Kapor and Vinod Khosla are both tech investors and major Wikipedia donors. William ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list wikimedia...@lists.wikime... ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
Re: [Wikimedia-SF] WikiConference updates -- budget
> Jon, > > Venture capitalists sponsor public events just like any other > organizations which want to set themselves apart from their > competition. E.g., http://etl.stanford.edu/about/ Absolutely. In particular, they like to get their name in front of promising entrepreneurs, as finding interesting companies is essential for their business. So if you pitch them, I'd try to find some reason they can see it as a useful marketing expense. Alternatively, rather than pitching venture capital funds, it might be worth talking to individual venture capitalists, who are just the sort of person to be fascinated by Wikis. For example, Mitch Kapor and Vinod Khosla are both tech investors and major Wikipedia donors. William ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
Re: [Wikimedia-SF] WikiConference updates -- budget
Jon, Venture capitalists sponsor public events just like any other organizations which want to set themselves apart from their competition. E.g., http://etl.stanford.edu/about/ I agree they are less likely to do so than public companies and startups, which is why they were listed in that order. On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Jon Davis wrote: > James, I think you may have misunderstood. We're looking for sponsors to > DONATE money. Venture Capitalists [1] _do not_ give away money, they invest > it in promising start ups. They are all about making more money, sort of > the antithesis of what we're doing. > > -Jon > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capitalist > > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:57, James Salsman wrote: >> >> > * determining sponsorship levels and potential sponsors >> >> These are the lists of potential sponsors for the Stanford Wikimania bid: >> >> >> http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/mng-ba.mercurynews/quote/components/dashboard/largest?Symbol=%24SV150 >> >> http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13840964 (way out of date now; they >> publish these every quarter) >> >> >> http://trends.techcrunch.com/2009/10/19/techcrunch-dealmaker-rankings-the-top-25-most-active-vcs-in-the-third-quarter/ >> (likewise) >> >> ___ >> Wikimedia-SF mailing list >> Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > > > > -- > Jon > [[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ > http://snowulf.com/ > http://ipv6wiki.net/ > > ___ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > > ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
Re: [Wikimedia-SF] WikiConference updates -- budget
James, I think you may have misunderstood. We're looking for sponsors to DONATE money. Venture Capitalists [1] _do not_ give away money, they invest it in promising start ups. They are all about making more money, sort of the antithesis of what we're doing. -Jon [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capitalist On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:57, James Salsman wrote: > > * determining sponsorship levels and potential sponsors > > These are the lists of potential sponsors for the Stanford Wikimania bid: > > > http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/mng-ba.mercurynews/quote/components/dashboard/largest?Symbol=%24SV150 > > http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13840964 (way out of date now; they > publish these every quarter) > > > http://trends.techcrunch.com/2009/10/19/techcrunch-dealmaker-rankings-the-top-25-most-active-vcs-in-the-third-quarter/ > (likewise) > > ___ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > -- Jon [[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ http://snowulf.com/ http://ipv6wiki.net/ ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
Re: [Wikimedia-SF] WikiConference updates -- budget
> * determining sponsorship levels and potential sponsors These are the lists of potential sponsors for the Stanford Wikimania bid: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/mng-ba.mercurynews/quote/components/dashboard/largest?Symbol=%24SV150 http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13840964 (way out of date now; they publish these every quarter) http://trends.techcrunch.com/2009/10/19/techcrunch-dealmaker-rankings-the-top-25-most-active-vcs-in-the-third-quarter/ (likewise) ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
[Wikimedia-SF] WikiConference updates -- budget
Hi all, Based on our discussions at the last meeting, and my back-of-the-envelope calculations from organizing similar events, I posted our notes on a draft budget here: http://2011.westcoastwikicon.org/wiki/Budget We have multiple steps to do, including: * refining the budget -- for instance, we may decide we can't raise so much, or that we want a sliding registration fee * determining sponsorship levels and potential sponsors * asking sponsors for money * finding a fiscal sponsor who can host our bank account and any monies received from sponsors CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: We need 2-3 (or more) dedicated volunteers to work on the above tasks! Please post on the wiki if you are interested in working on this aspect of the conference. You won't be alone: Eugene Kim and I have both volunteered to work on this, and we both have conference financial planning experience. But we don't want to do it by ourselves! So if you want to take it on, great, and you're interested but unsure what to do we will help you out. It's not as scary as it seems! Let me know/post on the wiki if you're interested. -- phoebe ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
