Yeah, I didn't think it'd be £40,000 budgeted purely for the bid (which let's face it is really a tourst's guide to whatever city, and a list of stuff you think you might get).
If you do decide to spend £40,000 on the bid, I'm available for the position ;) Joe On 26 August 2012 22:02, Chris Keating <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to clarify Wikimedia UK's position regarding Wikimania 2014. > > So far the Wikimedia UK board has made no decisions and received no > proposals regarding Wikimania 2014 - spending money on it or otherwise. > > What we do have is a section in the current draft of the 2013 activity > plan suggesting allocating £40,000 for Wikimania 2014. This draft is > currently up for community consultation before we discuss it at our > September board meeting. As a result of the discussion there we will > develop a proposal to vote on, and whatever is accepted, we will then send > to the FDC; how the FDC will respond, no-one knows. Then when we know the > FDC's opinion, we will have another version, and then when the fundraiser > out-turn is known in January there will be a further iteration before our > actual 2013 budget is finalised. So there is plenty of work left to do on > this. What's more, since our financial year runs from February and bid > selection is in April it's inevitable that most of any budget allocation we > make for Wikimania would be for *after* a successful bid, rather than > before it. > > While I can understand why this it a topic of interest, I'm not sure there > is any need to get worked up about it. We make a conscious effort to do our > planning as openly as possible, and share early drafts of documents with > the community for input. We are also unable to reject proposals that have > not yet been made. Please think carefully about whether shouting at us as a > result is a good idea ;-) > > Personally I hope that we end up with a very strong, volunteer-led, London > bid which will be successful and that Wikimedia UK will be able to support > Wikimania 2014 in every way possible - but there is still a very long way > to go yet. > > Many thanks, > > Chris Keating > (User:The Land) > Chair, Wikimedia UK > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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