-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/11/2010 17:37, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > I care more about realising our ambitions, I > care about getting our message out.
Personally, I care also about the means. I wouldn't like cupidity as the core of wikipedia. Money, thus, should not become the fuel we use. In my opinion we can improve our > messaging a lot. When people say that the WMF is transparent, they are > right. We fail however in having our message heard. When we hire new people, > people like Alolita for instance, we hire someone who we should be proud > of. Proud that she wants to work with us. > > Many great activities are happening in our chapters. Learning about these > activities is inspiring. When we know what fun can be had, we can learn from > each other and reduce the amount of overhead and concentrate on where we > make a difference. > > Another aspect that is missing in annual advertisement discussion is what we > should do with the money.. Assuming that we make a huge amount of money, I > have blogged about that as well. > Thanks, > GerardM > > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/11/effect-of-100m-in-advertisement-money.html > > On 6 November 2010 22:20, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > >>> Hoi, >>> As the "A" word has been mentioned again as is tradition, I want us to >>> talk >>> instead about how we can advertise / market our strategy, I want us to >>> discuss how this helps us to reach out. How we can realise the goals that >>> we >>> so beautifully formulated in our strategy.. >>> >>> To start it off, I have blogged some of my sentiments. >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> >> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/11/annual-wikipedia-argument-about.html >> >> Nice sentiments, but you don't address the question of why someone else >> needs the potential advertising revenue more than we do. Google does many >> good things, including providing substantial support to Wikipedia, but >> what good does money in the pockets of their shareholders do us? >> >> Fred >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM2GLQAAoJEHCAuDvx9Z6LB1oH/0WryvXb/91J9PVUK3kW7S88 LN0zjeVOpaV6WJ2DDPqZ1fBfwd6NH0rbbSeU88RsM0Q8zmBLiJxd+Lhmb+XXiRCO Rro7I0wwbRnHEF+PY2xk3EcUe/HZx3ho6gWQkadHwdGPhFEjRoYX4qKKeq8Ldx60 Mbx6QSavtXInMuNJ9iGQpgJZaklX9Rvt143H8YfxIQtO3Jq9V85chuDHud9GF37l 0tmqQvYj/bUnNvi1PSfYJmZf1DJE2i1ipLBCsXOmRm1D48nsnnv6iFvB0Y92AhfJ jnXoUzuya2cKC3aK3c2VhCrgO8nj0fRzvaph7Tvj51p/BdbmtNW3NVR9SUjSu3w= =viC4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
