I agree but there are others things which need to costed. So far only the venue has been costed. Ill make a note of your name. More volunteers please :-)
Seddon
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From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
Sent: 16 February 2009 18:33
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Budget committee
2009/2/16 joseph seddon <life_is_bitter_sweet(a)hotmail.co.uk>:
> With the bid page coming along nicely, I want to get work started on the budget. This is something that needs to be broken down between several people. Because of this I wish to form an informal body to work on this. Little or no experience is needed and all requirements will be provided and for the time being it can be mostly done through the internet. Can those interested please reply here or email me within the next few days?
Until the WMF gives us some information there, there isn't much we can
do. There was talk of them organising global sponsorship and us just
handling local (which makes a lot of sense, I don't know why it hasn't
always been done that way). We need to know how much they intend to be
spent on looking after VIPs and whether we need to budget for that or
leave it for them. We need to know how many people they want to be
able to sponsor travel/accommodation for and whether we need to budget
for that. We need to know how fancy they want the VIP party (and the
unimportant people party) to be and whether we need to budget for
that. Etc. Etc. Etc. Once we have that information, I'd be happy help.
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Its a wikimedia address.
Seddon
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2009/2/15 lennart guldbrandsson <lennart(a)wikimedia.org>:
> This weekend I was invited to speak at a conference about marketing through
> social media, such as Wikipedia.
Perhaps something has been lost in translation, but that sounds like
wiki-spam to me... Could you explain what the conference was about in
more detail? I'm curious...
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Ahhh ok. Well its something to bring up in the board meeting.
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2009/2/15 joseph seddon <life_is_bitter_sweet(a)hotmail.co.uk>:
> Ahhhh I see. That serves both us and them. Makes sense, where do we fit in with regards to us and sponsorship?
I don't think we do, directly. The conference just happened to be
where Lennart met this guy that might be interested in talking to us.
Hello,
My name is Lennart Guldbrandsson and I am the chair of Wikimedia Sverige. I'm not subscribing to wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org so if you want me to read your answer, don't forget to "answer all".
This weekend I was invited to speak at a conference about marketing through social media, such as Wikipedia. Moderator for the event was a guy I think that you should contact. I had the chance of speaking to him afterwards for several hours, and think that he is a good way to get into the corporate world, especially Dow Jones, where he works. His name is Steve Virgin. Just take a look at his LinkedIn-profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/steve/virgin
He is very interested in helping Wikipedia and could possibly mean some donations for you. Contact him at
steve.virgin(a)dowjones.com
Best wishes,
Lennart
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>Per the 2010 jury, the 2010 bid criteria have been published here:
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Judging_criteria
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>They are essentially the 2009 criteria, with greater emphasis on the
>local team's organization.
>Note also the bid timeline, here:
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>Public feedback on the criteria are welcome on the talk page. General
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>To contact the jury with questions, post on the WM2010 talk page, or
>email me and I will be glad to pass messages on to the jury list.
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>regards,
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Wikimedia UK has been invited to send one or two representatives to a meeting of all the chapters in Berlin from 3-5 April 2009. Given our finances, the Board decided that we wouldn't be able to finance this but the German Wikimedia has agreed to look into funding the travel and accommodation costs for one or possibly two people.
They have asked that chapters send representatives who are members of the Board. However, we've pencilled in 28 March for our AGM when the new Board will be elected and we will have to book the flight tickets before the AGM.
We would like to ask people their suggestions as to the best way forward. Should we restrict it to current Board members, or is it reasonable to say that anyone who puts themself forward as a candidate would be acceptable to go?
Is there anyone on this list who would be interested in going?
Please let me know what you think,
regards,
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Whilst flicking through my SU newspaper I noticed a little something about flagged revs being turned on en-wiki. As normal
too much was assumed and it was clear the person who wrote about it didnt really know a huge amount about it so I made a
comment on the story on the website corrected much of what he said about it.
Link is: http://www.gairrhydd.com/comment/opinion/887/something-wiki-this-way-comes
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2009/2/10 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>:
> Why are there seven seats on the board? I can see why there might be
> seven roles, but why seven people?
Because we had a discussion (on meta, I think) and that's what we
decided. We thought there was too much work for 5 people and 9 people
seemed unwieldy and unnecessary. (And even numbers result in even
splits which are always awkward.)
http://econsultancy.com/blog/3268-q-a-ian-grant-of-encyclopaedia-britannica…
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Ian Grant is the MD of Britannica UK, responsible for the EMEA regions. I've
been talking to Ian about how EB has adapted to the internet, the threat
from Wikipedia, and its plans for the future...
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