Tobacco wouldn't be possible due to uk advertising laws anyway. We would need to seek
advice from the foundation on things which could be considered touchy in terms of pr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Virgin Steve <Steve.Virgin(a)dowjones.com>
Sent: 16 February 2009 22:46
To: josephseddon(a)googlemail.com
Subject: RE: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Budget committee
Where would you guys take money from?
I ask as a lot of the 'sin stocks' have cash and I could approach but it
might not be the kind of thing that fits with the 'teams'
Eg: GM company and tobacco company (that kind of thing)
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[mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of joseph
seddon
Sent: 16 February 2009 20:01
To: wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Budget committee
We are allowed to contract multinational companies. There is a
possibility of sponsorship from american company anyway. I don't think
that its wrong cause at the end of the day, we can pass on sponsors in
the event we don't win. Iv been doing exactly what your suggesting.
seddon
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
Sent: 16 February 2009 19:27
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Budget committee
2009/2/16 joseph seddon <life_is_bitter_sweet(a)hotmail.co.uk>uk>:
That may be but previous bids have gotten by. We need
to assume that
there is no international sponsorship. We are running out of time
fast.
We have to go with worst case scenario.
We have a month and a half left, we need to keep moving, but there's
no need to rush. I guess out first step is to put together a list of
costs, then we can work out minimum and desired values for each. So,
here goes:
* Venue hire
* Catering
* Parties venue hire/catering
* Security (possibly comes with venue - I'm not really sure what we
need in this regard, but I guess some kind of security would be good)
* Travel/accommodation sponsorship
* VIP expenses
Have I missed anything? (I expect I have.)
And a list of income sources:
* Sponsors
* Ticket sales
I think that's it.
I'm not sure we can just assume there won't be any international
sponsorship, since we need to know whether we should be contacting
multinationals or not. If the WMF aren't going to do that (which they
really should), then we should be contacting the UK branches of all
the multinationals listed at
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sponsors
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