+1 with Logic and I don't think India needs to host an international event, a more structured community building exercise from foundation, chapter, existing Wikipedians is going on and it will take some time for a proper community. Putting a bid and conducting an event physically are things of 2 different spheres. No matter how well programs were arranged, there were basic issues including Wi-Fi/Food and lot more and we can't blame the OC. Their voluntary effort is to be appreciated and communication/logistics problems all happened because of lack of participation. A small group of volunteers did well, but, the similar things/worse things are going to happen when majority of the delegates will be from all different countries.
-1 withthe bid! On 24 January 2012 12:40, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:18, Noopur <noopur.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> the organizing bit is outsourced to experienced event managers > > > Not in totality. What can be outsourced are things like food / hotels / > logistics etc. > > Its *WIKIPEDIANS* who have to do a whole lot of things from scholarships > to programs to PR to finances to editing wiki pages(If you see wikimania's > have a wiki for itself) to a whole lot of things which cannot be > outsourced. WCI showed us how we were incredibly short of hands in each of > these things. For the sake of calling it community conference, things > *have* to be done by the *community*. If we dont feel like we have the > community, we must be content with what we do and not aim at events which > are way out of reach. > > -1 for any wikimania bid from India till 2014. > > -- > Regards > Srikanth.L > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > Best Subha
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