On 15-03-19 08:19 AM, Fæ wrote:
after that it started to become impossible to organize
an editathon
without first having an employee agreeing it
That seems... wrong.
For one, that experience may be WMUK's but it's certainly far from
universal. WMCA organizes monthly editathons in Montréal, at the very
least, at zero cost. (They are organized/moderated by volunteers and
the venue is provided at no cost by the Bibilothèque et Archive
Nationale du Québec). I've never attended, but I'm told that they are
fairly popular and well-liked.
If WMUK /chose/ do have a more structured (and more expensive) framework
to organize similar events themselves, it in no way prevents volunteers
or other organisms to do so without a penny of Foundation (or chapter)
funding.
I have no idea what this thread is trying to achieve. A "new financing
model" for editathons makes no sense givent that there isn't /a/
financing model to replace. There are as many financing schemes and
organizational scopes as there are editathons.
-- Marc