On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:44 AM, effe iets anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
Discussions about this are being started. See -planning. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
