A lot of the back-office operation such as communicating with Foundation, corresponding on the mailing lists, operating the registration system, operating the scholarship review system, clearing PayPal transactions, answering OTRS queries, building the program, inviting keynote speakers, running the conference wiki, Facebook, Twitter and IRC an external employee will never do or be able to do. And that's a fair amount of work on its own.

Harel


On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 January 2011 14:48, theo10011 <de10011@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, about what Dalton said above, about hiring a single event
> planner/manager in the chapter, I think it's still far from being able to
> manage a Wikimania style event professionally. Unless they are experienced
> with International event planning, its still going to be a very large task
> for any single chapter.

A professional working full-time would be equivalent to several
amatuers working in their spare time. There would still be a need for
a team of volunteers, but they could concentrate on things like the
programme, while the event manager does a lot of the routine stuff.

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