Hey folks, Ellie has put together a summarized budget including revenue and expenses from Wikimania 2014 in London[1] and Wikimania 2015[2], which I've gone ahead and posted to the summary pages of these conferences on meta.
Thanks, Chris [1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014> [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Itzik writes: > > > If we want to talk about the cost of Wikimania it will be great if the > WMF and the local team will share the costs. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/Budget > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015/Budget > > Maybe I missed something, but it's strange that such discussion takes > place without a real budget breakdown. > > To summarize 2 huge event to "1$ million USD" does not make sense. > > Agreed 1million%. It would be important to see a rough cost breakdown, & > compare that to the best-budgeted Wikimanias. > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > 2016-02-10 6:06 GMT+01:00 Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com>: > > > > > FUDCons > > > > Also it is hard to compare Wikimanias with FUDCons as it is > > a) much smaller (usually bo more than 200 attendees) > > b) divided by regions - for example in 2015 there were 3 FUDCons > > (Argentina, India, Spain) and 2 Flocks (NY and Kraków) - so they are > > rather like our Iberecop or CEE meetings than the global conferences. > > > > Thanks. Similar to regional events perhaps, not Wikimania. Still worth > comparing budgets perhaps, if available. > > But I was wondering about the trend over time: whether extensive funding > during the RedHat days made the events less useful, in the years after that > funding was reduced. > > > > > And also Fedora developers have many potential sources of external > funding > > - mainly from IT companies which uses free software and want to apply for > > their specific needs and for whom they quite often work. > > > > True. But attendees to GLAM or education conferences also tend to have > many potential sources of funding - mainly from archives or educational or > technical companies who curate knowledge or develop education tools. And we > have IT industry partners who are similarly willing to support Wikimanias. > Not entirely dissimilar. > > > > But anyway, Fedora offers scholarships for attendees, see: > > > > Yes, wiki conferences should as well - that part of conference funding is > important. Even early Wikimanias with almost no WMF support had > significant scholarship pools. > > S > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Chris "Jethro" Schilling I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)> Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
