Yes, at first I would like to thank the help from WM CHactually they given a crucial hand during the hour we figure out how to deal with the whole system thing
Also we are sure that WMF had given us pretty much needed support on having a successful event in HK
although simultaneously, there is something quite unhappy happened during FDC or other grant stuff beyond the Wikimania budget
like saying we are not well organized, well tracked etc
but after all with other works with only volunteers with only 1/5 of time they can work for Wikimedia,
how much you can expect,
it is always a problem of Chicken and egg, and resources
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Manuel Schneider
<manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch> wrote:
Am 15.04.2013 11:45, schrieb K. Peachey:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Katie Chan <
ktc@ktchan.info> wrote:
>> Most of chapters' money already come from the foundation annual fundraiser
>> either as FDC or grants program grants....
>
> And they should budget that income and use appropriately, no? The
> previous comment makes it sounds they just want the foundation to keep
> handing money anytime someone wants it.
scholarship / registration) is already paid by a Wikimedia chapter
(Wikimedia CH), so it IS budgeted, paid for and everything.
The issue here was just planning of ressources / proper use of the
ressources. The setup was just never intented to bear the load of all
people in all projects in any languages clicking on a Central Notice,
that's all.
If we knew before, we could have handled. In this case we could've even
avoided the load without increasing IT ressources / budget.
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Jeromy-Yu "Jerry" Chan, ARAD
User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia
Advisor, Wikimedia Hong Kong
ChapCom/ComCom, Wikimedia Foundation
Coordinator-in-Chief, Wikimania 2013
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