It’s online in reasonable detail:

 

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009/Bids/Buenos_Aires#Budget_and_local_sponsorship_opportunities

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Alexandria/Budget_and_Sponsorship

http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sponsors

 

And Re: Casey, yeah I’d seen that, it’s kind of scary for us. Also did you note that Alexandria got rooms for $6 per person per night...

 

It was in light of these facts that I’d made by £200,000 guesstimate, but it may still be too conservative.

 

Tom

 

 

We need to get hold of delphine and find out what the budget and source of money was and is for this years and nexts
years conferences respectively.

J. Seddon

> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:15:56 -0400
> From: cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com
> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Oxford 2010 Tasks + What is it OK to offer the OII in return at this stage
>
> 2008/7/23 Tom Holden <thomas.holden@gmail.com>:
> > We really do need *significant* funding. Buenos Aries had to raise
> > $270,000.
>
> ... and their venue was provided at no cost. [0] It would also be
> nice to note that Alexandria got the venue for free as well. [1]
>
> [0] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009/Bids/Buenos_Aires#Conference_venue
> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Alexandria#Conference_Venue
>
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