If that's a serious proposal, it isn't one that's been put to the Conference
Committee (of which I'm acting chair, and which is overseeing the bid). We just
had a two-hour meeting and it wasn't raised once.
Harry Mitchell
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From: Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] UK budget plan for 2014 Wikimania bid
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".
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