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. Itzik *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > I found this the most interesting part of the recent IdeaLab discussion > about changing the Wikimania framework. > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Towards_a_New_Wikimania > > "*The total spend by WMF for Wikimania 2014 in London and 2015 in Mexico, > including all travel, accommodations, scholarships, staff support and > direct conference expenses, was ~$1 million USD*" > > This is a pity. Small grants to support a con is one thing, but this is too > much. > > Please let's stop encouraging conferences that do not cover their own > costs. A good conference series pays for itself, including its scholarship > pool. There are plenty of communities our size or larger with wonderful, > regular conferences of hundreds or thousands of people, which break even or > turn a small profit. > > FUDCons are an interesting case in point. As I understand it, there was a > time when RedHat basically sponsored the events, with scholarships for all > active contributors and extensive grants. This was ok, but skewed > participation. Then the lavish sponsorship stopped. Attendance dropped; > community members felt unloved. Then after a time, this passed, and > everyone attended again. (Perhaps a core Fedora contributor can describe > this more accurately!) > > SJ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
