On 2 July 2012 10:44, fabian@unpopular.org.uk wrote:
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I think the idea of having Training meetings in Cambridge is a great idea.
It would be great to have you there.
I would be happy to attend on either Saturday 14th/Sunday 15th (preferably Sunday) provided WMUK pay travel expenses.
Clash with Wikimania means the following weekend would be earliest chance, though.
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I feel that we need more discussion amongst those already involved in the training before incurring additonal expenses by asking people such as Midas to create extra training packages. I think we already have an impressive range of experience amongst those who deliver training and would suggest it would make more sense to develop Team learning (see Wikipedia for a brief description!) This could be an important part of helping WMUK develop as a learning organisation.
The Midas quote would in any case go to the budget holder, and a positive case would have to be made for it. Without a quote there would be a vacuum on the financial side.
As a general comment, I have an outside view to the effect that 20K from a 500K budget allocated to training would be on the low side.
The case for a larger training budget would need to be made on the basis of costed proposals that had particular targets (see the other recent thread on strategy and spending). We should be looking at a range of proposals to understand what things cost. This research does not exclude other ideas at all.
Charles