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?
Seddon
2009/2/16 joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sweet@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.
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/2/16 joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sweet@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.
I think the Event is likely, in part, to be awarded on the basis of the initiative shown by the bid-team. Not so much waiting for leadership as chasing up the information and getting as much done as possible.
2009/2/16 Martin Peeks martinp23@googlemail.com:
I think the Event is likely, in part, to be awarded on the basis of the initiative shown by the bid-team. Not so much waiting for leadership as chasing up the information and getting as much done as possible.
Chasing up sounds like a good idea - we should email someone at the WMF about budgetary issues.
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