If you're interested in going to schools, then you may find that the schools are willing to cover the travel costs etc. in exchange for a good educational session.
Something else to factor in, though, is the development of the session content and any necessary materials. That can of course be done on a volunteer basis, but it all depends on how ambitious the sessions are, and whether e.g. a laptop and/or a projector needs to be purchased (although nowadays most schools can provide those, I guess). Also, would the wikimedians going be paid for their time, or would they have to volunteer it? If you pay for their time, then you tend to get a lot more people interested in doing a session... Mike On 18 Feb 2009, at 15:07, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/2/18 Theresa Knott <[email protected]>: >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Thomas Dalton >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> The only real cost for >>> that is travel - picking some numbers out of thin air, if we say we >>> want visit 5 schools, with a team of 3 going to each school, and it >>> costs £100 per person to get there, that comes to £1500, a >>> reasonable >>> amount to ask for. >> >> Well that figure is OTT. A more reasonable amount would be 1 at 100 >> and two local wikipedians at much less. For example an offpeak travel >> card in london costs 7 odd quid. So by choosing Londoners to visit >> the >> London schools costs would be cut considerably. I'm pretty sure the >> same could be said for other towns. > > That depends on to who we get to volunteer. I guess we can choose the > initial schools according to where we have volunteers, and probably > halve the cost per school. Later schools may end up costing more, > since we don't want to concentrate too much on schools in just a few > areas. > >> Of course 5 schools is paltry. Upping it to 15 would easily up the >> numbers to a reasonable amount. > > I was thinking 5 as a starting point to see how it goes. For all we > know it might not work and it's all a waste of time and money (I think > that's unlikely, but really I can only guess). We'll know either way > after the first 5. Perhaps we should see if we can get £750 for the > first 5 with the option of another £1500 for 10 more if they go well. > After that, we'll hopefully have out own funds to continue (and we > could acquire sponsorship from Becta or similar - if we have a few > schools willing to say how brilliant we were, it shouldn't be > difficult to get funding). > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
