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 <eyoung@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:


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We are now looking for proposals of teams and locations. This is not a
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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,
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accessibility, and security. ​
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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

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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

eyoung@wikimedia.org

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[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria

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