This sort of comment is really pernicious. If you bring up such an accusation, you should really be prepared to back it up.
This sort of comment is really pernicious. If you bring up such an accusation, you should really be prepared to back it up.
It's possible that they'd already cut down on the spending by the time you joined. After checking back when I would have seen the case I mentioned, it was in fact 2010 and not 2011.
Also is it possible that the foundation has different practices in different countries? I was in Australia at the time for reference.
Out of curiosity, how common were these local community hackathons? Even flying economy it seems a bit excessive to be flying people across the world for that...
Here is a detailed breakdown of the costs associated with the most recent hackathon, and some of the things that came out of it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Repo...