2009/9/11 Waldir Pimenta <wal...@email.com>: > Hi Thomas, and all who showed concern about Wikimedia Portugal's planned > expenses. > > I am one of the persons who calculated that budget, and thus I feel I should > provide you with some information.
Thank you very much, I appreciate your willingness to discuss this issue. > We would love to receive advice on how we can make the chapter work (well) > with people so spread across the country (almost all the involved people > live in different cities), and since much of the money WMF has was > volunteer-contributed, we will take into account the wishes of the > community. If you feel we should meet less (how many times do you think are > enough? let us know your thoughts on our mailing list: > wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org), then we certainly will consider your > advice. I'll offer you some advice here - I'd rather not join a non-English mailing list and I don't like to email a list I am not subscribed to. WMUK has almost all its meetings on IRC (every week at first, now down to once a fortnight usually), which are completely free. It is not quite as efficient as face-to-face meetings, but it does work. We have our Annual General Meeting (AGM - you may call it a General Assembly or similar, a meeting of all members) in person (at the last one the only cost was travel for the board, we got the room for free and I think there was free tea and coffee, everything else people paid for themselves - the next one will be part of a larger conference and we are trying to get sponsorship for that). There is also a plan for one board meeting a year in person in addition to the AGM, I expect the only cost for that will be travel again. We find people are generally happy to buy their own food when we meet in a pub or similar, or eat before they arrive (we usually start things around 1-2pm so people can get there since we are spread out all over the country and have a terrible train system). The conference we are planning will probably include a lunch, but it will either be paid for by sponsorship or a registration fee for attendees, it won't come out of general charity funds. I wish you the best of luck and offer you whatever assistance and advice I can - just ask. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l