On Jan 15, 8:19 am, "Michael Bimmler" <[email protected]> wrote:
Many thanks for your reply here Michael - very interesting to hear your perspective on that! > (In a perfect world, every board member > would "work" the same amount of time for the chapter... I'm not sure that's even desirable. Different candidates have different personal circumstances and can be valuable contributors even if they give different amounts of time. One board member who is an expert, say, in legal matters and just turns up to meetings can be extremely useful alongside perhaps a keen student who has lots of spare time and spends 20 hours a week organising projects. > In a newspaper interview, I once said "7-10 hours" [per week], which > wasn't a bad estimate then. It has decreased a bit as of late (as I've > been doing more ChapCom etc. stuff...and as I have started to > work-to-earn-money) By way of background I would add that Michael is the President of the Swiss Wikimedia chapter, which has 62 members and had an income of ~ £23,000 in 2007. I personally wouldn't expect Wikimedia UK to have as much income in 2009, although we would hopefully get to that number of members and given we are setting things up I guess our activity would be about the same. Andrew _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
