On 11/23/11 11:17 AM, James Forrester wrote: > On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede<[email protected]> wrote: >> In the past years I have seen a lot of people spend a lot of time on >> different bids which never >> made it (even though they were pretty good). Could this be the year that we >> change this >> procedure and try to do things differently? I would love to explore how we >> can avoid a lot of >> people wasting their energy... >> >> How about taking a little time to look at these and other imperfects of the >> current system >> before jumping right in, and trying to see if we can improve it? > Happy to pause things, but there's limited time (even if we just > awarded it today, 19 months isn't a huge amount of time to organise an > event which is quite a significant amount of work). Previously there > have been calls for the Board to establish a "Committee" of some sort > to oversee Wikimanias and try to come to some agreement about how to > improve the system - but I worry that if we start discussions about > how we're going to decide to decide we'll never get anywhere. :-) >
I agree that 19 months is short. The first three didn't even have that much time. Bidding is still a competitive process. I remember that the organizers from Turin were very upset when their excellent bid failed. To get the best bid I don't think we can avoid competition, though we can probably develop a short list fairly early on, so that the less likely candidates can limit their efforts. Ray _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
