Please note that we're talking about a proposal here, not anything that has been set in stone at this point. WMUK is open to the UK bid team requesting reasonable funds to support a bid, but we have not yet agreed to provide any such funding.
Thanks, Mike On 25 Aug 2012, at 20:32, James Hare <[email protected]> wrote: > Staffing is a very good thing to spend money on—while executing the > conference. Spending $62,000 on staff for a bid would be worth the investment > if bidding for Wikimania were anything like bidding for the Olympics, but it > is not. The spirit of Wikimania is ultimately from its volunteer leadership, > and if the Wikimedia UK volunteers cannot muster that spirit to run their own > bid, they have no hope and no soul. > > > James > > > On Aug 25, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Itzik Edri wrote: > >> Sorry, it's undiplomatic to interfere with others budget plans - but I just >> can't ignore how the future of Wikimania will look like if others will >> follow UK plans to invest £40,000 only for the bid process (about 62,000$). >> >> I wrote my last response on that few minutes ago: >> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:2013_Activity_Plan#5.2_Wikiconference_2013 >> >> "Hire a production company for half of this cost. It's really waste of >> donors money, for what we expect to be done by volunteers, or for a minimum >> costs. If every one who going to bid for Wikimania will spent this amount of >> money (and why them not? if UK can, why others not?), it's mean that for 4 >> places every year we are "spending" more than 260,000$ only for the bid!!!. >> --217.132.1.140 19:22, 25 August 2012 (UTC)" >> >> I really think the "Wikimania" groups need to speak about that. It's the >> first time a group/chapter spending such amount of money for bid, and it's >> open a door for next cities to do the same - with money which can uses to >> invest in Wikimania itself. >> >> >> Itzik >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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