This is one thing to "invest" 5,000$ or so for planning process, legal or expert advises - that is reasonable (and others did it without - Haifa, Argentina, DC, Poland..) 64,000$ is not.
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
On 25 August 2012 20:28, Itzik Edri itzik@infra.co.il 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$).
To be clear, that plan is still in draft, and that particular item has received plenty of opposition.
I am in favour of spending money on bids - it is necessary if we want to get professional quality bids. I am not in favour of spending that kind of money on bids, though.
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