On 27 Jul 2011, at 13:04, Thomas Morton wrote: > It will take at least a year to put together a good bid, especially if > we want to line up sponsors in advance of the bidding. (If we put a > large budget in the bid with no evidence that we'll be able to fund > it, we don't stand a chance. If we try to do a low-budget conference > in the UK, we'll end up putting most of our effort into keeping costs > down rather than running a good conference.) > > > All those reasons seem sensible :) > > In terms of money/cost - is this where WMUK could earmark some of the > underspend?
I'm 100% sure that the chapter would part-fund a UK wikimania - but it would need to be in conjunction with external sponsors. The money would come from the appropriate year's budget, though, not the current one (which covers spending between 1 Feb 2011 and end Jan 2012). Funding to support the creation of the bid over the next 6 months (e.g. travel to meet potential sponsors, scout out venues, etc.) would fall under the current budget, if this would be of use. BTW, Seddon started a draft bid page for 2013 in Manchester, which is at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Wikimania_Bid that might form a useful basis to start developing an official bid, either for 2013 or later. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
