As Liam said: Beautiful document. To enhance it for the non-English speakers, is it possible to translate it? I began (for the French language) but it would be a waste of time if it cannot be published in French, or at least indicated on [1] there is a (eventually unofficial) French version. There is also a lot of page layout which must be adapted (are the sources of the PDF available? in a Scribus/InDesign/other format).
Sébastien/Seb35 [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report > From: Jay Walsh <jwa...@wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:09:45 -0800 > Subject: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report > Hi all, > > In the next day or so Rand and the fundraising team will be sending out an > email to all of our donors (about 230,000 - thanks to a tremendous > fundraiser) recapping the campaign sharing our 2nd annual report, which you > can also read here: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report > > As with our previous year's report, we make an effort to describe the year's > activities, our major accomplishments, our financial successes, and where > we're heading in the coming year/years. This is a crucial tool for our > fundraisers and for building strong relationships with our major > stakeholders, and of course to let our chapters and our vast community of > volunteers get a snapshot of our work. It's primarily intended to work as a > print document, and one that quickly presents top-line data and key > information, as well as a basic structured narrative about the Foundation and > our volunteer community's work. > > You'll note that our report is out later than last year, and this isn't a > pattern we'll duplicate :) We did spend more time on design and narrative > this year, with the intention of bringing more depth to the story, especially > in features like the center-spread anatomy of an article. We also wanted to > put more of a forward-facing direction on the report. Optimally our report > will always come out 2-3 months after the close of fiscal, as soon as our > audited statements are complete. > > There's still more good work to be done, but it's a big leap from last year. > This year's designers David Peters and Rhonda Rubenstein did a great job > (collectively known as 'ExBrook design' here in SF http://www.exbrook.com/). > Lane Hartwell's ccbysa photos feature prominently - she's been shooting our > staff portraits for the last two years > (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photography_by_Lane_Hartwell). > > We'll be starting work on the next edition in a few months. About 1500 > copies will be printed here in the next week or so. We'll be sure to bring > copies to the chapter meeting and of course Wikimania. We can ship some > copies out as well if there's interest (but in limited quantities only, it's > a pricy shipment after 10 locations :) > > Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! > > -- > Jay Walsh > Head of Communications > WikimediaFoundation.org > blog.wikimedia.org > +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
