Hi Tom,

The 10K was in the budget and had not been spent at last meeting in Birmingham. It was thought then too late to spend it, but I volunteered for the task. Basically I sent out an email and funded those people who applied and we also funded some who had failed to get foundation funding (two from overseas).

All of this is in Wiki board minutes. Its not ideal, as we started too late to do a more thorough job. I understand the foundation discussed their funding in January.

cheers
Roger

On 23 July 2011 21:23, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
It doesn't look like there is much of a UK contingent going to
Wikimania - we didn't even make the top 5 countries list. There's also
no mention of WMUK sponsoring anyone despite there being £10k in the
budget for Wikimania sponsorship. Could someone on the board let us
know what that money is being spent on?


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From: Harel Cain <harel.cain@gmail.com>
Date: 23 July 2011 20:45
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Some statistics about Wikimania 2011
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Cc: Jessie Wild <jwild@wikimedia.org>


Hi al,

Some statistics about Wikimania 2011:

* We expect upwards of 470 confirmed attendees. The exact number is
difficult to tell, but all those we consider confirmed are paid for
and have never cancelled.
* Our confirmed attendees hail from 56 different countries. The
highest participation is from Israel (26%), United States (16%),
Germany (9.6%), Netherlands (4.7%) and India (4.3%).
* 22% percent of participants are female. That's a wonderful number,
considering the research finding that only about 13% of editors are
women.
* About 1150 people submitted a scholarship application, 450 made it
to the second round of filtering. About 80 full scholarships and about
60 partial scholarships were awarded by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedia Deutschland gave out 16 scholarships, WM Italia 8, WM France
about 7 (?), WM Austria about 5, WM Russia 3, WMCH 2. The average age
of scholarship applicant was about 31, the median age about 27.
* About 11% of participants are vegetarian or vegan.

See you all soon in Haifa!


Harel Cain
Wikimania 2011 local team


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