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Begin forwarded message: > From: balaji <[email protected]> > Date: July 6, 2019 at 10:23:39 PM GMT+5:30 > To: Wikimedia India Community list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India > Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list > <[email protected]> > > Best wishes for the fund raising campaign in India. > > Regards > J.Balaji > >> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019, 9:28 PM Joseph Seddon <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey Everyone! >> >> My name is Seddon, I’ve been a Wikipedian since 2006, was heavily involved >> in my local affiliate in the UK for a number of years and since 2016 I’ve >> supported the Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising team in their community >> outreach particularly around our online fundraising campaigns. >> >> As many of you know our grant programmes, servers and websites are supported >> mainly through online fundraising. This takes the form of web banners on our >> projects on both mobile and desktop devices. We produce an annual report of >> our fundraising activities that might be useful to read to get a background >> of the history of this type of fundraising. [1] [2] >> >> It’s been a number of years since we last fundraised in India and over the >> next 12 months we’ve set ourselves a goal to return to India. >> >> The first step in this process will be to test out our payment systems. >> Fundraising in a new country comes with a significant amount of technical >> work. Through the end of July we’ll running some pre-existing banners to >> test out our infrastructure. These tests will generally run for a couple of >> hours at a time. >> >> Our main campaign will be run in 2020. Between now and then we will be >> looking to work with community members, affiliates, CIS-A2K, research >> partners and other local experts from across India to build our first >> campaign and develop the messaging together. >> >> Throughout this period we’ll be looking for suggestions about ideas, themes >> and values that we should convey in our fundraising appeals. Input from >> people across the Indian communities is going to be vital to make our >> campaign successful. >> >> Personally I’m really quite excited to get to know the communities in India >> and I through this work, I’m really looking forward to getting to know all >> of you and your work. >> >> Thank you all in advance! >> >> -- >> Seddon >> >> Community and Audience Engagement Associate >> Advancement, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Report >> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2016-17_Report >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-OR mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or
