On 15-03-19 08:19 AM, Fæ wrote:
after that it started to become impossible to organize an editathon without first having an employee agreeing it
That seems... wrong.
For one, that experience may be WMUK's but it's certainly far from universal. WMCA organizes monthly editathons in Montréal, at the very least, at zero cost. (They are organized/moderated by volunteers and the venue is provided at no cost by the Bibilothèque et Archive Nationale du Québec). I've never attended, but I'm told that they are fairly popular and well-liked.
If WMUK /chose/ do have a more structured (and more expensive) framework to organize similar events themselves, it in no way prevents volunteers or other organisms to do so without a penny of Foundation (or chapter) funding.
I have no idea what this thread is trying to achieve. A "new financing model" for editathons makes no sense givent that there isn't /a/ financing model to replace. There are as many financing schemes and organizational scopes as there are editathons.
-- Marc