On 26 August 2012 16:34, HJ Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > Nobody is seriously talking about spending £40k on the bid. As far as I can > tell, the number was plucked out of thin air. I've just come from a two-hour > meeting with the bid committee, where the idea of spending ~£17k on the bid > was discussed. Even that's not a formal proposal - it's something that's > being investigated, along with other options, and will have to undergo > extensive discussion before we even get to the stage of asking the WMUK > board to approve it, and which faces considerable opposition (including, to > some extent, from me) even at this stage.
Have you looked at the budget proposal from the bid committee (I linked to it earlier in this thread)? That £17k is just for paying the professional conference organiser and it in addition to a proposed £45k to go to the bid committee themselves to pay them for their time. As far as I can tell, that is a serious proposal from the bid committee. It is linked to from their minutes with the title "budget proposal agreed". _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
