Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Montreal Wikimania bid

2010-01-17 Thread tom willis
To me, the cheif advnatages of Montreal over Toronto is the potential for government support, plus the bilingualism. (Wikimania Buenos Aires proved that a non-English speaking city can work and be a Good Thing). Given that Montreal's bis seems much more advancedthan any otehr Canadian city,

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