On 26 August 2012 16:00, Osmar Valdebenito <osmar(a)wikimediachile.cl> wrote:
WM-UK spending £40,000 is unfair for other future bids
I'm not sure "fairness" should be the goal here. We want to further
our movement's goals the best way we can. If WMUK is able to do that
better than other chapters for some reason, then it shouldn't be
prevented from doing so just because it isn't fair. The reason I
object to spending £40k on a bid is simply that it isn't worth the
money. Spending that money will not further our goals better than the
numerous other things we could do with £40k. There is also the fact
that, if it worth it for WMUK to spend that kind of money on a bid,
then it is also worth it for other bids to spend the same kind of
money, so we end up with hundreds of thousands of pounds going on
bids, most of which fail - that definitely isn't worth the money.