I may have mentioned this before, but I'll state it again: Wikimedia Israel has set aside funds (on the order of $3000) to support development of OpenZIM. We hope to encourage work on the specific issues that still hamper successful deployment of right-to-left Wikipedia (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Yiddish), and I was hoping to discuss the specifics with Manuel and whoever else will be attending the upcoming conference in Berlin.
Asaf On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Tommi Mäkitalo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > and also this is very good. It would be really great, if we can get > sponsorship for even a part for this. Then we can concentrate better on our > work for openzim without paying for it ourself. > > Tommi > > Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 11:21:19 schrieb Manuel Schneider: > > Dear all, > > > > based on > > a) our first experience of 2009 and > > b) our plans for 2010 (as existing so far) > > > > I have made a budget plan for 2010. > > > > Last year we had a budget - mainly based on the estimated cost of a > > small Developers Meeting and the server cost - of 4000 CHF (~ 2800 EUR). > > We got an extra 1000 CHF (~ 700 EUR) to produce the Wikipedia DVD for > > LinuxTag. > > > > As our team grew (which is great) and we see more opportunities to > > present ourselves to fully reach our potential I have made a more > > "professional" calculation. > > The biggest difference compared to last year are the Developer Meetings. > > I have requested quotations from conference venues and used these > > figures for the budget and I calculated with 10 attendees, so these > > costs are about four times higher than 2009, when we made everything on > > our own including catering and had a room in a nearby company for free. > > > > I also added more events to participate such as Wikimedia Conference, > > LinuxTag (we were there 2009, but it was not in the budget) and > Wikimania. > > > > Please review the budget and make your comments. I need your approval of > > it, so I can send it on to Wikimedia CH so we can hope to get the money. > > > > If you have more ideas for sponsors (maybe the Wikimedia Foundation > > wants to cover part of it) please speak up now. > > > > A last comment: > > This budget is quite high, but my aim was to make it a "top budget", so > > we calculate all possible costs but will always spend less money than > this. > > > > Here you go: http://openzim.org/Budget_2010 > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Manuel > > _______________________________________________ > dev-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l > -- Asaf Bartov <[email protected]>
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