Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania, or other events done by a third party?

2013-05-17 Thread Lodewijk
Hungary seems ideally situated to host a Conference for Eastern Europe in 2015? If you organize it properly, it could be pretty big. 2013/5/17 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com (regional events are usually not called 'wikimania' but something else, however - like Wiki Conference India :) On

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania, or other events done by a third party?

2013-05-16 Thread Samuel Klein
I recommend trying to sell them on organizing a regional event if they don't win the bid for a global one. There have been many successful regional 'manias, and after London 2014 there are some rotation reasons why it would not be an ideal year for a bid in Europe. SJ On Tue, May 14, 2013 at

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania, or other events done by a third party?

2013-05-16 Thread Samuel Klein
(regional events are usually not called 'wikimania' but something else, however - like Wiki Conference India :) On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend trying to sell them on organizing a regional event if they don't win the bid for a global one.

[Wikimania-l] Wikimania, or other events done by a third party?

2013-05-14 Thread Balázs Viczián
Hello everyone, Wikimedia Hungary has recieved an interesting sales pitch today if we can call a two liner that. One of the largest Hungarian travelling agency's department (or subsidiary?) for conference tourism have expressed interest in organizing a Wikimania in Budapest, Hungary in 2015 in

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania, or other events done by a third party?

2013-05-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Balázs Viczián, 14/05/2013 23:30: 1) What if a third party applies to create an event? [...] 1/b) What if their bid is the best overall? Would they be allowed to execute it (a.k.a. being announced winners)? [...] In practice this has already happened, so it doesn't seem particularly strange.