On 31 July 2010 16:37, Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org wrote:
There was also a fundraising summit hosted by Wikimedia UK http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Fundraising_Summit, which Thomas could tell us more about.
Indeed. For people involved in chapters, there are lots of in-person meetings and they are very useful. The Fundraising Summit enabled us to discuss fundraising in much more depth and breadth than we could ever have done online (face-to-face discussions are much quicker than online discussions - one major advantage is that you know when someone else is speaking and also when they are about to speak, neither of which you know with most online media). That is very different from the kind of meetings most people have at Wikimanias though (which are ad hoc meetings over coffee with no agenda). Of course, chapter people have more formal meetings at Wikimanias, but we aren't typical of Wikimedians.