Fae,
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2 April 2014 16:12, Jon Davies
<jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
...
This could help reduce costs and avoid any
duplication?
I can now confirm that Wikimedia UK is not going to make a public
report of the total costs of sending 8 people to the Wikimedia
Conference 2014. I doubt that Jon Davies' wish to reduce costs can be
considered a commitment if as the Chief Executive, he has chosen to
not report on them.
I have read the links that you have provided and I find it totally
unacceptable that an organisation can not provide costs for sending 8
people on a junket to New York.
When I have operated businesses in the real world, I have been able to pull
up any financial information (expenses, revenue, etc) within a matter of
seconds and with a click of a mouse. It is astounding that WMUK is not able
to do the same thing.
That Richard Symonds is saying that it is not a good use of resources, and
basically putting it in the too hard basket, to supply the amount of donor
dollars which have been spent on this controversial junket is, to use a
great British colloquialism, total bollocks.
WMUK is an organisation which blows its own trumpet on how transparent it
has become in the last 2 years, so it seriously should not be too difficult
to do this in a timely fashion.
Cheers
Russavia