On 24/07/2011 14:42, Chris Keating wrote:
> [...]

> Well of course we could decide that WMUK would pay the full costs of
> anyone from the UK who wanted to go to Wikimania. I'm not sure why
> that would be a good use of WMUK's funds, though.
>
>

Why not offer a limited travel bursary (but without accommodation costs
for example) and expect the person who goes to write up some sort of report?

That, I think, is actually what we are doing. :-)

I've got no objection to WMUK broadening participation in the Wikimedia movement by supporting people to attend Wikimania who might not otherwise be able to - whether those people are in the UK or elsewhere. We can also do rather better at communicating Wikimania's existence to some of our community, and publicising the support arrangements.

However, all of that said, I don't really think it is WMUK's "problem" if not many people from the UK attend Wikimania. People are quite capable of going to Wikimania without any involvement from the Chapter.

Also, since Chris raised the idea of us hosting Wikimania - personally I'm not sure what the benefits to WMUK of hosting would be - can someone spell them out?

Chris