I am seriously interested in organising a Wikimania in Bangkok. The Thai Wiki does not have a functional chapter, but there is a user group chaired by a professor at Thailand’s major Medical College, and we have collaborated on various projects. With our combined knowledge we could get a team together fofr 2018 0r 2019 probably 2019 would be best. . I have experience in event management. Taweetham has lived and studiedfor his PhD in Australia and has attended several Wikimanias. I have lived in Thailand for nearly 20 years and was a professor at a government university in Bangkok for several years.
Bangkok has an ideal geo location, it’s a very modern city with excellent transport and communications infrastructures. (two large interation airports only 20 mins from the city centre; highly developed urban rapid mass transport systems; first class Internet). Food, accommodation, and other facilities for visitors cost roughly one sixth of those in Western (USA, Canada, Australia, Europe,) or Westernised economies (HK, Singapore, etc). Chris (Kudpung) > On 17Oct, 2016, at 07:24, Ellie Young <eyo...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > This is a follow-up to a posting to this list by the Wikimania Committee in > July soliciting proposals for people who might be interested in hosting a > future Wikimania (especially 2018 and 2019), as follows: > > > "We are now looking for proposals of teams and locations. This is not a > bidding process; we are keen for this to be a light-weight, simple request > for suggestions. You don’t need to have a venue locked down, contracts > drafted or sponsors lined up. You can have a quick look at the “judging > criteria” which were used for 2016,[2] but the key part is commitment. In > deciding where to hold conferences, we have to take into account additional > factors about potential sites such as cost, accessibility, and security. > " > > I will be following up with various people who have expressed interest in the > coming week. If anyone else is interested in discussing the possibilities > (the team/prospective host need not be tied to a particular venue), please > get in touch with me directly by October 30, 2016. We will be working with > the WM > > F in the coming months in finalizing a venue/team for 2018, and we also > want to get an early start at identifying potentials for the following year. > > Thank you, > > > > Ellie Young > > WMF Events Manager > > eyo...@wikimedia.org <mailto:eyo...@wikimedia.org> > > > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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