That's most helpful, thank you both.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks, Ellie and Chris, this historical
experience should be very helpful
for future discussions!
Best,
Pharos
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Chris Schilling <
cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hey folks,
Ellie has put together a summarized budget including revenue and
expenses
from Wikimania 2014 in London[1] and Wikimania
2015[2], which I've gone
ahead and posted to the summary pages of these conferences on meta.
Thanks,
Chris
[1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014>
[2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015>
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Itzik writes:
>
> > 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.
> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/Budget
> >
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.
>
> Agreed 1million%. It would be important to see a rough cost
breakdown,
&
> compare that to the best-budgeted
Wikimanias.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 2016-02-10 6:06 GMT+01:00 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
> >
> > > FUDCons
> >
> > Also it is hard to compare Wikimanias with FUDCons as it is
> > a) much smaller (usually bo more than 200 attendees)
> > b) divided by regions - for example in 2015 there were 3 FUDCons
> > (Argentina, India, Spain) and 2 Flocks (NY and Kraków) - so they
are
> > rather like our Iberecop or CEE
meetings than the global
conferences.
> >
>
> Thanks. Similar to regional events perhaps, not Wikimania. Still
worth
> comparing budgets perhaps, if available.
>
> But I was wondering about the trend over time: whether extensive
funding
> during the RedHat days made the events less
useful, in the years after
that
> funding was reduced.
>
>
>
> > And also Fedora developers have many potential sources of external
> funding
> > - mainly from IT companies which uses free software and want to
apply
for
> > their specific needs and for whom they quite often work.
> >
>
> True. But attendees to GLAM or education conferences also tend to
have
> many potential sources of funding - mainly
from archives or
educational
or
> technical companies who curate knowledge or develop education tools.
And
we
> have IT industry partners who are similarly willing to support
Wikimanias.
> Not entirely dissimilar.
>
>
> > But anyway, Fedora offers scholarships for attendees, see:
> >
>
> Yes, wiki conferences should as well - that part of conference
funding is
> important. Even early Wikimanias with
almost no WMF support had
> significant scholarship pools.
>
> S
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