Flight costs between Lisbon and Stockholm were indeed about 100€ many months ago. However, when the scholarships were out, anyone receiving a partial scholarship or wanting to go on their own anyway would have to pay over 400€ already, just for the flight .
Paulo A sábado, 1 de jun de 2019, 13:41, Tisza Gergő <[email protected]> escreveu: > On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 1:12 PM effe iets anders <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I would even argue that for by far most people, the registration cost >> will not be the limiting factor - other components of the trip would likely >> be (unless they are local to Stockholm, maybe). The travel to Stockholm >> alone will outweigh this fee by a factor of 2, maybe 4 for most, and a week >> of accommodation with the remaining dinners will probably set you back at >> least the same amount (if you go very low budget). >> > > Those estimates are way off. Most of our volunteer base is in Europe, > where flight costs are typically below $100; you can find accomodation in > the immediate vicinity of the conference for $200 (and you can probably go > way cheaper with hostels, or by being in a more distant part of the city); > if you actually want to go very low budget and skip on restaurants / pubs / > etc, food costs are minimal (and obviously people do need to eat outside of > Stockholm as well, so it's not really an extra spending). So the conference > fee would be about half of your total costs. > > >> There are two ways that our movement can try to address this hurdle: one >> way would be to reduce the price even further for everyone, the other is to >> provide help for some people to overcome all these financial hurdles. I >> personally prefer that we spend more on scholarships (travel, accommodation >> and registration) rather than even further subsidizing the registration fee >> for all other participants. >> > > So are we actually spending more on scholarships? > There is no consistent reporting on scholarships (nor any other aspect of > Wikimania for that matter) but some wiki archeology gives: > - 2012: 87 full + 47 partial per [1] > - 2013: 62 full + 18 partial (which apparently somehow adds up to 86...) > per [2] > - 2014: 109 per [3] > - 2015: 110 per [4] > - 2016: 88 full + 35 partial + 6 additional (whatever that means) per [5] > ([6] claims 99 full) > - 2017: 81 full + 17 partial per [5] > - 2018: 125 full + 16 partial per [5] > - 2019: 96 full + 20 partial per [5] > So it seems like the higher price of the conference was indeed offset > somewhat by a slightly higher number of scholarships in 2018, but that is > not the case for 2019. (Granted this is WMF only, and a significant part of > scholarships tend to come from affiliates, but it's even harder to find > data on that.) > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/2012 > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/2013 > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Wikimania_scholars/2014 > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Wikimania_scholars/2015 > [5] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Wikimania_scholars#2019_WMF_Wikimania_Scholarships > [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/2016 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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