IMHO it would be absolutely OK to support such organizations/groups with works related to Wikimedia project, which could also benefit general public.
2014-04-15 22:27 GMT+02:00 David Gerard <[email protected]>: > On 15 April 2014 20:50, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd be interested in hearing broader community opinions about the >> extent to which WMF should sponsor non-profits purely to support work >> that Wikimedia benefits from, even if it's not directed towards a >> specific goal established in a grant agreement. > > > Creative Commons, OpenStreetMap spring to mind. What are their budgets > like? I expect ours dwarfs theirs. We should throw money at Freenode > on a regular basis. OSM Foundation budget is roughly 100 000 GBP per year. http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finances/Income_2012 http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finances/Balance_Sheet_2012 and they are not charity, however I can imagine supporting them via WMF Grant Program for specific projects (for example buying and maintaining separate server for tiles for Wikimedia Projects, which could speed up MiniWikiAtlas, :-) ). For Document Foundation (LibreOffice) - I can imagine supporting them with grant to improve their MediaWiki extension, etc... They are charitable in Germany, their income is about 120 000 EUR per year: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Tdfbudget2013.pdf -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
