Why should all Wikimedians have the same culture and ideas and way of thinking as you? Why should Wikimedians who have a culture be excluded from setting up a chapter?
Besides that I think you're paraphrasing way too much. The grant request only suggested that this kind of costs are just costs that have to be made to work efficiently. The chapter asked the Foundation to pay for it the first year, so that they could focus on useful stuff. I hope they will be able to generate these and other funds themselves from next year onwards. Lodewijk 2009/9/11 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> > 2009/9/11 Jennifer Riggs <jri...@wikimedia.org>: > > However the word and concept of "frugality" differs significantly across > > cultures. In my experience with many non-Western cultures, asking people > > to bring lunch from home or spend their own money for it would not only > > exclude participation, it would insult people. If the purpose is to > > encourage participation and commitment to a newly forming organization, > > it seems it would be very important not to insult people. > > If we were talking about meetings with people from outside the > Wikimedia movement, I would agree with you, but I really can't see how > it can be insulting not to provide food at a meeting of Wikimedians > when the people attending the meeting and the people organising the > meeting are exactly the same people. If people are only willing to set > up a chapter if the WMF buys them lunch once a month, I don't want > those people setting up a chapter. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
