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== Fundraising Committee ==


Hi there! Thanks for volunteering to sit on the Fundraising committee. The work of the committee will be really valuable to making this year's annual giving campaign really effective. I've posted an overview to [[Fundraising 2010]], and would love your thoughts on the talk page. I'm also going to try to set up an IRC meeting soon, and hope you'll join for that. Keep an eye [[Fundraising 2010/Committee]] for a couple of proposed times! Thanks again... [[User:Philippe (WMF)|Philippe (WMF)]] 18:20, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
==G'day Candidate!==


::Absolutely. [[User:Swatjester|<font color="red">&rArr;</font>]][[User_talk:Swatjester|<font face="Euclid Fraktur"><font color="black">SWAT</font><font color="goldenrod">Jester</font></font>]] [[en:WP:DC|<small><sup>Son of the Defender</sup></small>]] 18:22, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
First I thought I'd offer a thank you for being brave / foolish enough to put your hat in the ring as a candidate for election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! - I wonder if you might have any time, interest, and enthusiasm to record a brief 10 / 15 minute audio interview about yourself / the reasons for your candidature / your wiki philosophy etc. etc. ? - I've been promoting a project on the english wikipedia called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NotTheWikipediaWeekly NotTheWikipediaWeekly] - which is a grassroots effort to promote good communications through (semi) regular 'podcasts'.


== Meeting ==
If you have a couple of moments free, would you mind taking a look at [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Privatemusings/ElectionDiscussions this page] and signing up if you're interested! It'd be great to chat with each and every one of you, and I hope you'll be amenable to this idea! Let me know if you've any questions at all, thought perhaps my [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Privatemusings english wikipedia talk page] is the best spot.


Hi all,
The best of luck, and kind regards,


I'd like to have a meeting on IRC this week to discuss the 2010-2011 annual appeal/fundraiser. This will be an "anyone is welcome" type meeting, open to the broad community. During this, Zack Exley and I will take you through our inital thoughts about the fundraiser and its organization, and ask you to join us in a discussion about the (massive) role of volunteers and chapters in this year's fundraiser.
[[User:Privatemusings|Privatemusings]] 03:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


Because of the vagaries of time zones, scheduling live meetings is hard. So, we'll have a couple of potential times, and we'll log and post the meeting for anyone who wasn't able to make it.
==Plannning the 'real world' conversation==


The meetings will be held Thursday, 12 August at 23:00 UTC (16:00 PDT) and Friday, 13 August at 16:30 UTC (09:30 PDT) in the #wikimedia-fundraising channel on the freenode network on IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-fundraising). You can access this using freenode's webclient, which is available at http://webchat.freenode.net/ or by using your favorite IRC client.
Thanks for both your interest and patience in setting up an audio conversation - I'm afraid I've found myself both 'real world' busy, and it took me a moment to figure out what the best way forward in organising these conversations could be.


Hope to see you there! [[User:Philippe (WMF)|Philippe (WMF)]] 19:29, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
I've created a 'sign up' sheet over at [[User:Privatemusings/ElectionDiscussions]] - which it would be great if you could peruse, and sign up at a suitable time. The times are in 'UTC' (which I gather is the official 'wiki' time) - but if you have any problems converting, there's a seperate section for you to simply drop the appropriate information in. I already have many of you as Skype contacts - but if you haven't forwarded this information so far, you can submit that at this time also.


== Fundraising 2010 ==
I'm aiming to publish this podcast on 6th June - and believe (and hope!) that it might raise the profile of the election a little bit, as well as humanising the people behind the screen names a little. Thanks for your willingness to engage with this - head over [[User:Privatemusings/ElectionDiscussions|here]] as soon as possible, and let's get chatting! cheers, [[User:Privatemusings|Privatemusings]] 05:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


== Very cool! ==
==Fundraising==
Hello Swatjester, I hope life is good. I need to make it back up to DC.
Swatjester, I'm very pleased to see that you're running for the WMF. I can't really predict how I'll vote before reviewing the various nominations, but I have been very impressed with how you've conducted yourself, and how you've represented the mission of the project, in my interactions with you. Good luck! -[[User:Peteforsyth|Peteforsyth]] 09:22, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for showing interest in the fundraising committee. You can see that we've started to develop the [[Fundraising 2010/Committee|Committee structure]] and I'd like to encourage your thoughts and participation in the formulation of the important role Wikimedians will play in our drive this year. Please leave me a message if you have a specific request from me, otherwise head to the talk pages and lets get started brainstorming! Keegan (WMF), [[Fundrasing 2010]] 20:03, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
::Signed up for Outreach and Languages, as I'm not technical and don't speak languages. Hopefully I'll get to see you up in D.C. some time! [[User:Swatjester|<font color="red">&rArr;</font>]][[User_talk:Swatjester|<font face="Euclid Fraktur"><font color="black">SWAT</font><font color="goldenrod">Jester</font></font>]] [[en:WP:DC|<small><sup>Son of the Defender</sup></small>]] 23:58, 7 September 2010 (UTC)


== Criticism ==
== Banner help ==


Hey, Have seen you done a lot on the banner front and was wondering if you could help me in creating a text banner.I have mentioned the idea of banner [[Fundraising_2010/Contribute_Indic|here]] at Idea#5.Please let me know if you could spare some time on it. Thanks a lot [[User:Logicwiki|Logicwiki]] 03:28, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
First, as always, when responding like that, it's me personally responding rather than the election committee as a whole. Now, criticism is more than welcome if one actually intend to help improve the process as an end result. If however, someone is moaning for the sake of moaning, then what good does that do? [[User:KTC|KTC]] 12:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
::I don't think it's a fair judgment to say that this person had no intent to help the process. In any event, I feel a little good faith is in order. [[User:Swatjester|Swatjester]] 19:53, 7 June 2008 (UTC)


::That's a good idea! Have you spoken with Theo? I know he was leading the charge on the indic Contribution Team stuff. [[User:Swatjester|<font color="red">&rArr;</font>]][[User_talk:Swatjester|<font face="Euclid Fraktur"><font color="black">SWAT</font><font color="goldenrod">Jester</font></font>]] [[en:WP:DC|<small><sup>Son of the Defender</sup></small>]] 03:57, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
== Threats, vengeance, harassment and intimidation associated with RfA, RfB, etc ==


::: :) Theo knows about it.What am wondering is the feasibility of such dynamic banner(I havent seen any apart from the progress bar in fundraising) and how easy/tough would it be to do it.Since you seem to be well versed with CentralNotice stuff, I pinged you. If you could give a shot just creating the banner, we could test it out internally / iterate, before launching it as a campaign[after some discussions].I would also leave a talkbalk here to Theo. Thanks. [[User:Logicwiki|Logicwiki]] 16:49, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
The summary of the situation is on my en talk page. If you want to have more information, get Skype and talk to me there. Or I can call you.


==Congratulations, Dear Administrator!==
I think that the community should make it clear that threats and intimidation associated with these "votes" or "polls" is inappropriate. I think that the community should make it clear that taking revenge for past participation in assorted "votes" and "polls" is inappropriate.
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That would be a good start. --[[User:Filll|Filll]] 14:06, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

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::Thanks ![[User:Swatjester|<font color="red">&rArr;</font>]][[User_talk:Swatjester|<font face="Euclid Fraktur"><font color="black">SWAT</font><font color="goldenrod">Jester</font></font>]] [[en:WP:DC|<small><sup>Son of the Defender</sup></small>]] 08:23, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Indeed - welcome :) I hope to see you around Meta more often. <span style="background-color:white;color:#bbb;">&ndash;[[User:Sj|SJ]]<small> &middot; [[User Talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f90;">talk</font>]] | [[Meta:Babylon|''translate'']] </small></span> 03:27, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

== Steward nomination question ==

Hello Dan, I left a [[Stewards/elections_2011/Questions#Swatjester|followup question]] for you on your global lock last month.

I suspect there are some global policies we need to clarify here on Meta to help improve office-steward communication in the future, and it's probably good that you've brought one of them to the fore. The sense that something is urgent and that shortcuts should be taken is a familiar one, but we can channel that urgency to local communities to motivate their growth as well. <span style="background-color:white;color:#bbb;">&ndash;[[User:Sj|SJ]]<small> &middot; [[User Talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f90;">talk</font>]] | [[Meta:Babylon|''translate'']] </small></span> 03:32, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

==Steward election 2011==
Hello! I left a reply for you [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bluerasberry#Your_oppose_vote here] on my talk page. I appreciate your following up on the statement I wrote. [[User:Bluerasberry|<span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">''' Blue Rasberry '''</span>]][[User talk:Bluerasberry|<span style="cursor:help"><span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">(talk)</span></span>]] 02:58, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
:I replied in the same place and even if I did not find the best words I have the best intentions. Thank you so much for writing to me and participating in the Steward election. [[User:Bluerasberry|<span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">''' Blue Rasberry '''</span>]][[User talk:Bluerasberry|<span style="cursor:help"><span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">(talk)</span></span>]] 02:09, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

== Sysopflag ==

is done, but hope to see you around. --[[User:WizardOfOz|<font face="Monotype corsiva" size="4" style="color:#000000;color:blue"><i>WizardOfOz</i></font>]] <sup><span style="font-family:Italic;color:blue">[[user_talk:WizardOfOz|talk]]</span></sup> 18:27, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

:Thanks! [[User:Swatjester|<font color="red">&rArr;</font>]][[User_talk:Swatjester|<font face="Euclid Fraktur"><font color="black">SWAT</font><font color="goldenrod">Jester</font></font>]] [[en:WP:DC|<small><sup>Son of the Defender</sup></small>]] 06:41, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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Fundraising Committee[edit]

Hi there! Thanks for volunteering to sit on the Fundraising committee. The work of the committee will be really valuable to making this year's annual giving campaign really effective. I've posted an overview to Fundraising 2010, and would love your thoughts on the talk page. I'm also going to try to set up an IRC meeting soon, and hope you'll join for that. Keep an eye Fundraising 2010/Committee for a couple of proposed times! Thanks again... Philippe (WMF) 18:20, 3 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Absolutely. SWATJester Son of the Defender 18:22, 3 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Meeting[edit]

Hi all,

I'd like to have a meeting on IRC this week to discuss the 2010-2011 annual appeal/fundraiser. This will be an "anyone is welcome" type meeting, open to the broad community. During this, Zack Exley and I will take you through our inital thoughts about the fundraiser and its organization, and ask you to join us in a discussion about the (massive) role of volunteers and chapters in this year's fundraiser.

Because of the vagaries of time zones, scheduling live meetings is hard. So, we'll have a couple of potential times, and we'll log and post the meeting for anyone who wasn't able to make it.

The meetings will be held Thursday, 12 August at 23:00 UTC (16:00 PDT) and Friday, 13 August at 16:30 UTC (09:30 PDT) in the #wikimedia-fundraising channel on the freenode network on IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-fundraising). You can access this using freenode's webclient, which is available at http://webchat.freenode.net/ or by using your favorite IRC client.

Hope to see you there! Philippe (WMF) 19:29, 10 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Fundraising 2010[edit]

Fundraising[edit]

Hello Swatjester, I hope life is good. I need to make it back up to DC. Thanks for showing interest in the fundraising committee. You can see that we've started to develop the Committee structure and I'd like to encourage your thoughts and participation in the formulation of the important role Wikimedians will play in our drive this year. Please leave me a message if you have a specific request from me, otherwise head to the talk pages and lets get started brainstorming! Keegan (WMF), Fundrasing 2010 20:03, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Signed up for Outreach and Languages, as I'm not technical and don't speak languages. Hopefully I'll get to see you up in D.C. some time! SWATJester Son of the Defender 23:58, 7 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

[edit]

Hey, Have seen you done a lot on the banner front and was wondering if you could help me in creating a text banner.I have mentioned the idea of banner here at Idea#5.Please let me know if you could spare some time on it. Thanks a lot Logicwiki 03:28, 25 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

That's a good idea! Have you spoken with Theo? I know he was leading the charge on the indic Contribution Team stuff. SWATJester Son of the Defender 03:57, 25 January 2011 (UTC)Reply
:) Theo knows about it.What am wondering is the feasibility of such dynamic banner(I havent seen any apart from the progress bar in fundraising) and how easy/tough would it be to do it.Since you seem to be well versed with CentralNotice stuff, I pinged you. If you could give a shot just creating the banner, we could test it out internally / iterate, before launching it as a campaign[after some discussions].I would also leave a talkbalk here to Theo. Thanks. Logicwiki 16:49, 25 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Congratulations, Dear Administrator![edit]

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-Barras 08:11, 25 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks !SWATJester Son of the Defender 08:23, 25 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Indeed - welcome :) I hope to see you around Meta more often. SJ · talk | translate 03:27, 22 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Steward nomination question[edit]

Hello Dan, I left a followup question for you on your global lock last month.

I suspect there are some global policies we need to clarify here on Meta to help improve office-steward communication in the future, and it's probably good that you've brought one of them to the fore. The sense that something is urgent and that shortcuts should be taken is a familiar one, but we can channel that urgency to local communities to motivate their growth as well. SJ · talk | translate 03:32, 22 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Steward election 2011[edit]

Hello! I left a reply for you here on my talk page. I appreciate your following up on the statement I wrote. Blue Rasberry (talk) 02:58, 1 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

I replied in the same place and even if I did not find the best words I have the best intentions. Thank you so much for writing to me and participating in the Steward election. Blue Rasberry (talk) 02:09, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Sysopflag[edit]

is done, but hope to see you around. --WizardOfOz talk 18:27, 19 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! SWATJester Son of the Defender 06:41, 29 July 2011 (UTC)Reply