I am not sure about that is a waste of energy though for area with a chapter like us in Hong Kong such a bid is a nice cause to get reach people around to seek potential sponsor for smaller scale events
and a great way to test out our connections On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 16:55, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Jeromy-Yu Chan, Jerry http://yuyu.be/txt http://about.me/jeromyu UID: Jeromyu (on Facebook, Twitter, Plurk & most sites) Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601 DEVS AVTEM REX NOSTER ANTE SAECVLVM OPERATVS EST SALVTES IN MEDIO TERRAE TV CONFIRMASTI IN VIRTVTE TVA MARE CONTRIBVLASTI CAPITA DRACONVM IN AQVIS
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