Thanks, it is a step in the right direction indeed. Although a bit more breakdown would be helpful, I'm guessing this also highly fluctuates year by year. Some observations:
A huge amount of money goes into flying WMF around the world (321k resp. 383k), which doesn't even take into account (I'm assuming) all the hours invested into it. I'm assuming 'donations' includes sponsorships. That amount is less than I would have expected/hoped. Registration income is low, as expected (the burden would just be moved to a different part of our movement: the community) 'wikimania direct' is quite expensive, to be honest, and much more than I would have expected. However, it does include catering, which is always an expensive chunk (5days * 1000 people will even at a quite low 30 dollar per day easily give 150k, not even counting the parties etc). Many of these costs would still exist if you split the event up in multiple events spread out. WMF would still want to fly everywhere (board has to meet anyway, WMF staff wants to engage anyway, committees have to meet somewhere), catering won't be much cheaper if spread over multiple events, and don't underestimate the manpower it would take to organise all those events - relatively it may be even more. So looking at these figures, I can agree that it should be possible to do it for less, I'm less certain though whether the proposed splitting up would significantly reduce the total costs for everything that is included here. Lodewijk On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Sam Klein <sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu> wrote: > That's most helpful, thank you both. > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexand...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Thanks, Ellie and Chris, this historical experience should be very > helpful > > for future discussions! > > > > Best, > > Pharos > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Chris Schilling < > cschill...@wikimedia.org > > > > > wrote: > > > > > 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> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> > > > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > _______________________________________________ > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
