I would strongly encourage you guys to think about it. There is a strong community which is a very important point. It gives you lots of man power.
Even if you guys dont win this year, you'll learn a lot to bid for the following year. In fact you may even know your weaknesses better than if you were to hold off from bidding to just go for one strong bid next year. I dont want to push you guys, just wanting you to keep your minds open to bidding in the future :) If you guys need any advice about getting underway this or any other year feel free to ask. Seddon On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Jon Davis <w...@konsoletek.com> wrote: > We (the SF group) have actually talked about doing before, we just wanted > to have a dry run for it first. That dry run just so happens to be today > and is the West Coast Wikiconference [1]. > > Seeing is how this "little" shindig oversold by 30% or so, and was really > done in a month by Phoebe & Eugene, I think we could do a Wikimania > > -Jon > [1] http://2011.westcoastwikicon.org/wiki/Main_Page > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 23:36, Joseph Seddon <seddonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Wikimedia California mailing list, >> >> Earlier this month the bidding for Wikimania 2012 opened and I wanted to >> encourage your community to consider submitting a bid. Failing to win >> shouldn't stop you since so much can be learnt by bidding anyway nor should >> the rotation of Wikimania be an issue since there hasn't been a North >> American wikimania since 2006. >> >> Wikimania provides an excellent opportunity for the local community to >> come together to work on something big and it may well lead on to other >> things so please think about it. Creation of bids closes on February 6th so >> there is plenty of time to create a page and start the work on a bid. >> California has such a vibrant community and a conference here would be veyr >> successful. There is the Stanford bid currently but it might be worth >> looking at it and seeing whether there are better options and if not, go >> with it and try and make it happen. >> >> If you need any advice please feel free to ask on this list. >> >> Many Thanks >> >> Joseph Seddon >> Wikimania 2012 Jury Moderator >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-california mailing list >> wikimedia-califor...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-california >> >> > > > -- > Jon > [[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ > http://snowulf.com/ > http://ipv6wiki.net/ >
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