Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Fwd: Montreal wikimania bid

2010-01-17 Thread Gerald A
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.comwrote: As it stands, Montreal would appear to be the better place to put forward. Unofficially this is the year for North America to receive the nod, so we can't afford to have two or three competing bids. Montreal has several

Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Fwd: Montreal wikimania bid

2010-01-17 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Gerald A geraldabli...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's too early in the bidding process, at this point, to discount any city. I agree here. There's nothing wrong with working on two separate bids, at least at this point. We can always re-evaluate this at a later

Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Fwd: Montreal wikimania bid

2010-01-16 Thread Alan Walker
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Fwd: Montreal wikimania bid Alan Walker wrote: I will dance naked in the street if the Harper government gives a penny towards this event. :) This may turn out to be amusing, then. :-) I'll admit that Ottawa is the least promising, and I wouldn't hold

Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Fwd: Montreal wikimania bid

2010-01-16 Thread Andrew Leung
2010 14:04:34 -0800 From: sainto...@telus.net To: wikimedia-ca@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Fwd: Montreal wikimania bid Alan Walker wrote: I vote for Toronto, the center of the universe. All joking aside, wouldn't Ottawa be a better venue? I think that a key

Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Fwd: Montreal wikimania bid

2010-01-15 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
[resent from correct address] From: Nicholas Moreau nicholasmor...@gmail.com It could work either way, it could show Canada's really, really interested, or that Canada's really, really not cohesive in its bid planning. Incidentally, whatever you guys decide, you are both welcome to help and

Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Fwd: Montreal wikimania bid

2010-01-15 Thread Alan Walker
I will dance naked in the street if the Harper government gives a penny towards this event. :) 2010/1/15 Marc A. Pelletier m...@wikimania.qc.ca [resent from correct address] From: Nicholas Moreau nicholasmor...@gmail.com It could work either way, it could show Canada's really, really