Well, to be honest I think we first should think about the general time schedule. Do we want to hurry or do we first want to reconsider what kind or conference we want in the coming years and build the wikimanias around that idea. It means a lot whether we want a very unofficial conference or whether we want a more serious conference which could for instance mean more possibilities for finding sponsors and having a serious media look during the conference, more results with respect to the main goals we have etc etc... I do know that at least the program committee needs a huge evaluation (as soon as Jakob and me are home, we will do that I guess) and I assume also other teams want to do that, before we would do a wikimania wide evaluation, and draw results from that.
So a few big questions ahead, which can very much influence the choice of the city. Personally I'd not want to rush anything until we know that. On the page you created, which is of course a draft, it has been assumed almost that we choose the early schedule, even though it is still a draft (you could also make changes there, and still call it a draft, even though the main window has been set). I sincerely hope we can have an open discussion *first* on whether we need evaluation, together with local team, committees, WMF etc, and then see how long we need for that to draw conclusions etc. Best regards, Lodewijk 2008/7/23 Cary Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > effe iets anders wrote: > | Ehm? Did you decide on the timeline now? :S > | > | Just for the record, is this a WMF decision, or just what we call in > | Dutch a "proefballon", a little test to taste the reactions. > | > | as explained in my previous email, I see barely advantages and a lot > | of disadvantages. I sincerely hope this time schedule will not be > | close to what it will be, especially not without a little more > | rationale? > | > | Best regards, > | > | Lodewijk > | > > Perhaps you missed the page title "Draft Timeline". Or my comment, "It > *is* a wiki". That is, I anticipate much discussion and explanation as > well as consensus about the timelines. I believe Damien Finol has > already begun the talk page. > > - -- > Cary Bass > Volunteer Coordinator > > Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia > Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > Phone: 415.839.6885 x 601 > Fax: 415.882.0495 > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkiHVT8ACgkQyQg4JSymDYlQiwCgsqYx4nZ09ZLuQUugDxAyhYPs > gG0AnigfNDgDp6K11WEdhN2JmeJFK35y > =cyKm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
