Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] Comments requested: Cascadia Wikimedians annual plan and budget, version 3

Hi James, 1. Yes. I am hoping that the legal services network which we can access through HUB may be willing to provide us with pro bono counsel. The cost is currently budgeted at $800 which is a midrange estimate; it may be $0 or it may be $1500. At this point, we don't know. 2. This is a possibility, but I wouldn't bet on it. I doubt that museums will give discounts for small nonprofits. They typically give discounts for large groups of profit or nonprofit attendees. Whether we can get education or nonprofit discounts will depend on the specific museums and their policies at the time of events. If we are able to develop partnerships with museums then I think it is more likely that we will get discounted or free admission to events. 3. We have discussed the travel budget in some detail internally and with WMNYC. The feeling of our board seems to be that we want to ask for these funds because this guarantees us some attendance at these events, and WMF has not objected to our request for these funds. However, there has been some discussion that if we are given the choice of having funds for travel or funds for staff time, that the funds for staff time take priority because there are other alternatives for travel funds. 4. Under version 3 of the budget, yes, we would run a Summer of Monuments type event here. 5. I will be the part-time employee at approximately 20 hours per month. To give a picture of my workload: so far I've spent about 8 hours in the past week dealing with administrative work related to Cascada, all on unpaid time; and none of the dozens of hours that I spent on designing the three versions of our budget were compensated. This is unsustainable, and we're only running small programs right now while we're in startup mode, so I expect this pace of work to continue if we want to run programs. Regarding taxes, please note that there are taxes budgeted for the position. I anticipate that the workload will fluctuate throughout the year, and 20 hours per month seems about right. Would you mind if we moved this discussion to Meta so that all of GAC has easy access to this discussion? Thanks! Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/> *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.* *—Catherine Munro* On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:54 PM, James Hare &lt;james.hare(a)wikidc.org&gt; wrote: