On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:31 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I'm combining responses to edward and Fae and then heading to the pool. B-)
Fae wrote:
- What proportion of attendees were Wikimedia Chapter or Foundation
contractors or employees and attending the conference could be considered part of their employment? *
- At least one email here claimed that volunteers broke their backs
running the conference, which seems to overlook that a high proportion of registered attendees were employees and probably did most of the preparation. I asked this question last year about another conference, it was never answered properly, as it was never measured. Again, this ought to be *a good thing* to report on, as our values are to keep the volunteer at the centre of everything we do and driving our movement rather than paying Executives six-figure sums to tell us what we should believe in.
This feels like a strange question to ask. Aren't you asking specifically who the conference organizers were and how many of them were volunteers? I think https://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Organizing_Team answers this question.
http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Organizing_Team
(for the record, i attended the conference as a volunteer and 100% paid for myself ... no scholarship, nothing, and think that's the case for most attendees)
Cheers, Katie
MZMcBride
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