very irony of all of this is that the Australian chapter had scheduled a
national-semi regional conference this past weekend but was that abandoned
when the funding request was decline
On 7 October 2015 at 08:11, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org>
> wrote:
> > ..
> > as a side note, of course I strongly support the regional conferences,
> and I
> > am thrilled to see that the WikiArabia conference is seeing a second
> > edition!
>
> When looking for parts of a new process for Wikimania selection, I
> think it is worth building in a requirement that a 'regional'
> conference has been held in the city, or at least the country, and was
> successful at getting the locals ('casual' editors and non-editors
> alike) to walk in the doors.
>
> This would provide a clearer path towards hosting a Wikimania,
> allowing a lower cost event to provide a testing ground of both the
> organisers capabilities and local communities interest.
>
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