On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:31 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm combining responses to edward and Fae and then heading to the pool. B-) > > Fae wrote: > > >* What proportion of attendees were Wikimedia Chapter or Foundation > >contractors or employees and attending the conference could be considered > >part of their employment? * > >- At least one email here claimed that volunteers broke their backs > >running the conference, which seems to overlook that a high proportion > >of registered attendees were employees and probably did most of the > >preparation. I asked this question last year about another conference, > >it was never answered properly, as it was never measured. Again, this > >ought to be *a good thing* to report on, as our values are to keep the > >volunteer at the centre of everything we do and driving our movement > >rather than paying Executives six-figure sums to tell us what we > >should believe in. > > This feels like a strange question to ask. Aren't you asking specifically > who the conference organizers were and how many of them were volunteers? I > think <https://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Organizing_Team> answers this > question. > http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Organizing_Team (for the record, i attended the conference as a volunteer and 100% paid for myself ... no scholarship, nothing, and think that's the case for most attendees) Cheers, Katie > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- @wikimediadc / @wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
