A year, or more, ahead. For larger spaces, often two or three years. 2010 + 2 = 2012...
-george On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Ariel T. Glenn <ar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > How far ahead do we have to talk to convention venues to get space in > this area? I would think they need a loooong lead time. > > Ariel > > Στις 27-01-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 14:59 -0800, ο/η phoebe ayers > έγραψε: >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:50 PM, George Herbert >> <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I would think that properly planning a proposal for something like >> > this would take a lot more than 2 weeks - I've done conference and >> > convention organization work before, and even the rough plan for a >> > proposal took more than 2 weeks, including finding and getting >> > preliminary agreements with venues etc. >> >> Agreed! To clarify: Feb 8 is just the deadline to put down the city >> name as a possibility. You then have until March 29 to work up the >> full bid (with team and venue information, etc). Two *months* is still >> a tight timeline for the amount of information required, though. >> >> > The 2012 proposal would be more reasonable, on the basis of having a >> > year to get a team and proposal ready to go. >> > >> > However, if someone here wants to go gung-ho for 2011 as a practice >> > run or if you think you could actually pull a credible proposal >> > together that fast, more power to you. It would be a good excuse for >> > some gettogethers at least... >> >> Indeed :) >> >> I have worked on planning Wikimania for several years now -- so if >> anyone has questions about this feel free to ask me directly. Note, >> I'm not personally committing :) -- but I thought I'd find out if >> there was any community interest (or pent-up desire!) to host >> wikimania. >> >> -- phoebe >> >> >> > -george >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:14 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ay...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I was asked if the SF-area Wikimedia group had any interest in putting >> >> in a bid for Wikimania 2011: >> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011 >> >> >> >> The deadline to do so is February 8 -- two weeks away (just to list >> >> the bidding city's name; the deadline for full bid info is March 29). >> >> >> >> If that's too hard, there's an unofficial page for 2012 already as >> >> well: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012 >> >> >> >> If you don't know what Wikimania is, see >> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania or >> >> http://en.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania. >> >> >> >> What do y'all think? >> >> -- phoebe >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> - http://phoebeayers.info | phoebe.ay...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wikimedia-SF mailing list >> >> Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-SF mailing list >> Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
