There pure costs shouldn't be the main or only argument. What does the
movement pay, for what? How are the goals of the movement served by
Wikimania or other conventions? The better we understand that the
better our conventions are.
For example, for the programme of the Wikimedia Conference Netherlands
I looked at the strategy and annual plan of the association. It gives
you a good feeling to see that our conference was already in line with
that. :-)
Kind regards
Ziko
2016-02-13 7:52 GMT+01:00 David Goodman <dggenwp(a)gmail.com>om>:
Rather, we should spend more, possibly several times
as much. We need much
wider participation, both for Wikimania and for regional conferences, and
the only practical way to achieve that is to pay full expenses for all
regular participants who want to attend. It should not be an elite event.
The WMF is running a considerable surplus, and we should spend 5 or 10 %
of it on interpersonal live access to each other.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 6:02 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Itzik -
Wikimedia Israel
<itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il> wrote:
If we want to talk about the cost of Wikimania it
will be great if the
WMF
and the local team will share the costs.
Until now Wikimania London didn't published anything:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/Budget
And also Mexico:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015/Budget
Maybe I missed something, but it's strange that such discussion takes
place
without a real budget breakdown. To summarize 2
huge event to "1$ million
USD" does not make sense.
I agree. Without public data, how can there be an informed public
consultation.
I've asked for similar data at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/Towards_a_New_Wikimania…
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