On 20 June 2011 13:42, Thomas Morton <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I suggest considering a "fire sale" later in the year once the amount of the > underspend is better known - literally assign half of the spare cash (or w/e > can be spared) to whatever ideas the Chapter agrees would be useful things > to do/have. I tend to mean "big" ideas here, stuff that it too expensive for > the normal program of expenditure but would be really useful/helpful to > have.
The problem is finding the time to do those big ideas. The reason the previous board decided to hire lots of staff is because we had lots of money and very little time. Hiring staff is the best way to convert money into time. If there are volunteers wanting to organise big events themselves, I'm sure WMUK can fund them, but there tend not to be such volunteers. That's why hiring an events organiser was a good plan - they can do a lot of the time consuming work of organising events and leave the volunteers to just do the interesting bits. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
