Please note that we're talking about a proposal here, not anything that has been set
in stone at this point. WMUK is open to the UK bid team requesting reasonable funds to
support a bid, but we have not yet agreed to provide any such funding.
Thanks,
Mike
On 25 Aug 2012, at 20:32, James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Staffing is a very good thing to spend money on—while
executing the conference. Spending $62,000 on staff for a bid would be worth the
investment if bidding for Wikimania were anything like bidding for the Olympics, but it is
not. The spirit of Wikimania is ultimately from its volunteer leadership, and if the
Wikimedia UK volunteers cannot muster that spirit to run their own bid, they have no hope
and no soul.
James
On Aug 25, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Itzik Edri wrote:
Sorry, it's undiplomatic to interfere with
others budget plans - but I just can't ignore how the future of Wikimania will look
like if others will follow UK plans to invest £40,000 only for the bid process (about
62,000$).
I wrote my last response on that few minutes ago:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:2013_Activity_Plan#5.2_Wikiconference_2013
"Hire a production company for half of this cost. It's really waste of donors
money, for what we expect to be done by volunteers, or for a minimum costs. If every one
who going to bid for Wikimania will spent this amount of money (and why them not? if UK
can, why others not?), it's mean that for 4 places every year we are
"spending" more than 260,000$ only for the bid!!!. --217.132.1.140 19:22, 25
August 2012 (UTC)"
I really think the "Wikimania" groups need to speak about that. It's the
first time a group/chapter spending such amount of money for bid, and it's open a door
for next cities to do the same - with money which can uses to invest in Wikimania itself.
Itzik
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