Rather, we should spend more, possibly several times as much. We need much wider participation, both for Wikimania and for regional conferences, and the only practical way to achieve that is to pay full expenses for all regular participants who want to attend. It should not be an elite event. The WMF is running a considerable surplus, and we should spend 5 or 10 % of it on interpersonal live access to each other.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 6:02 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel itzik@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
If we want to talk about the cost of Wikimania it will be great if the
WMF
and the local team will share the costs.
Until now Wikimania London didn't published anything: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/Budget
And also Mexico: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015/Budget
Maybe I missed something, but it's strange that such discussion takes
place
without a real budget breakdown. To summarize 2 huge event to "1$ million USD" does not make sense.
I agree. Without public data, how can there be an informed public consultation.
I've asked for similar data at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/Towards_a_New_Wikimania#...
-- John Vandenberg
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