Meetings/September 17, 2004

Meeting on WMF

A discussion took place on the #wikimedia IRC channel on Friday 17 September, 2004 to discuss the upcoming fundraising drive and the current progress being made with grant applications. A full log of the meeting is available at Fundraising meeting, September 2004/Log.

The meeting addressed the following questions: bandwidth info]). 2300 dollars/mo -> 1100 dollars -> 13200/y
 * 1) What is the target amount for the drive?
 * 2) *Estimated costs:
 * 3) **We need to start paying half for the colo costs ([http://65.59.189.201/www.bomis-total/www.bomis-total.html
 * 1) **Additional Apaches, additional squids, additional rack space, additional db servers : $26000 a year
 * 2) ***Thought Jamesday mentions $30,000-$50,000 on hardware for a quarter...
 * 3) **10 domains/country * 100 countries = 10000/yr
 * 4) **At this moment, we have $26,662.84 in the bank which will not be taken into account for this fundraising drive.
 * 5) *We will ask for 50 000 for the fundraising as a goal
 * 6) *The money will be used for
 * 7) **hardware
 * 8) **bandwidth (possibly)
 * 9) **colo costs
 * 10) **domain names
 * 11) **travel costs
 * 12) How long will the drive last?
 * 13) *2 weeks
 * 14) "This website is not yet official" has to change. Does anything else need to change before this can happen?
 * 15) *Needs main page to be clean up properly -> this week end
 * 16) *Brion will try to have edit links and co, hidden for non loggued in
 * 17) Which set amounts should be in the monthly/yearly options?
 * 18) *Monthly : minimum given by Mav, up to 100 dollars/mo. For other currencies, make it round numbers as well, and make it fit with revenu level.
 * 19) How will the drive be publicised?
 * 20) *pumps
 * ml
 * 1) *goings on
 * 2) *press release (must warn translators)
 * 3) *unique site notice (look for the translations of the previous notice)
 * 4) *The template:fundraisingnotice will be used on all wikis? (Can this be added automatically?)
 * 5) Are the translations complete and ready to go live?
 * 6) *Not yet, but we will try hard to get it done this weekend.
 * 7) What technical load issues are there that will affect us during the fundraising period?
 * 8) *We hit 100Mbit/s on Wednesday for several hours. How will the website tolerate the peaks ?
 * 9) *http://65.59.189.201/www.bomis-total/www.bomis-total.html