Meetings/September 17, 2004
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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 meta:Fundraising meeting, September 2004/Log.
The meeting addressed the following questions:
- What is the target amount for the drive?
- Estimated costs:
- We need to start paying half for the colo costs ([http://65.59.189.201/www.bomis-total/www.bomis-total.html
- Estimated costs:
bandwidth info]). 2300 dollars/mo -> 1100 dollars -> 13200/y
- Additional Apaches, additional squids, additional rack space, additional db servers : $26000 a year
- Thought Jamesday mentions $30,000-$50,000 on hardware for a quarter...
- 10 domains/country * 100 countries = 10000/yr
- At this moment, we have $26,662.84 in the bank which will not be taken into account for this fundraising drive.
- Additional Apaches, additional squids, additional rack space, additional db servers : $26000 a year
- We will ask for 50 000 for the fundraising as a goal
- The money will be used for
- hardware
- bandwidth (possibly)
- colo costs
- domain names
- travel costs
- How long will the drive last?
- 2 weeks
- "This website is not yet official" has to change. Does anything else need to change before this can happen?
- Needs main page to be clean up properly -> this week end
- Brion will try to have edit links and co, hidden for non loggued in
- Which set amounts should be in the monthly/yearly options?
- 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.
- How will the drive be publicised?
- pumps
- ml
- goings on
- press release (must warn translators)
- unique site notice (look for the translations of the previous notice)
- The template:fundraisingnotice will be used on all wikis? (Can this be added automatically?)
- Are the translations complete and ready to go live?
- Not yet, but we will try hard to get it done this weekend.
- What technical load issues are there that will affect us during the fundraising period?
- We hit 100Mbit/s on Wednesday for several hours. How will the website tolerate the peaks ?
- http://65.59.189.201/www.bomis-total/www.bomis-total.html