Nah, lets not wind ourselves up unnecessarily. There is still plenty of
time - as long as the winners are known around june/july. A full year
should be enough to organize a Wikimania.
Lodewijk
No dia 15 de Dezembro de 2011 11:42, Manuel Schneider
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch escreveu:
Dear
Hi Lodewijk,
I agree that in theory a full year should be enough, but in practice we
have some people who need a long time to get visa's sorted for travel to
certain countries. Yes we should be able to get some sort of pre early bird
process for such people, but in the absence of that it would
Hi WSC,
I doubt that the moment that people start requesting visa for 2013 will be
any sooner depending on the decision moment. Most of the people with visa
problems also require financial support or will an invitation letter, the
exact dates etc. Experience learned that the *real* organizing
Sure, that should and possibly could be moved forward. But I doubt that
they would take your letter very seriously if you have no location
definite dates yet, and you cant allocate grants before you fixed the
budget. All things that cannot happen too long in advance :)
And so far, the longest