This is one thing to "invest" 5,000$ or so for planning process, legal or expert advises - that is reasonable (and others did it without - Haifa, Argentina, DC, Poland..) 64,000$ is not.
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote: > On 25 August 2012 20:28, Itzik Edri <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry, it's undiplomatic to interfere with others budget plans - but I > just > > can't ignore how the future of Wikimania will look like if others will > > follow UK plans to invest £40,000 only for the bid process (about > 62,000$). > > To be clear, that plan is still in draft, and that particular item has > received plenty of opposition. > > I am in favour of spending money on bids - it is necessary if we want > to get professional quality bids. I am not in favour of spending that > kind of money on bids, though. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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