On 18/01/2012 14:14, Alec Meta wrote: >> Why does the Board of Trustees think that WMF should raise the «maximum >> possible amount of money»? >> Why not ask for what is needed and nothing more? > > Because we don't expect to be JUST Wikipedia forever. We have a lot > of innovation ahead of us. If we stand still, we'll be overtaken. > > With more funding, we can responsibly begin to expand beyond the > confines of Wikipedia-as-we-currently-know-it.
99% of the work in the movement is done by volunteers - for free. Money is not the alpha&omega of our movement. That's why we should maybe ask ourself if raising the «maximum possible amount of money» is a the most important thing to do. > If we collected only what we need to stay afloat, then all we'll do is > stay afloat. I hope in future we'll expand and see a corresponding > increase in donations. We already collect more money as what we need to «stay afloat»... But I agree this is not our goal. Emmanuel
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