I know that announcement will be quite important for the winning bid
team - but it's just a matter of course to manage that. It would be
good for them to have some notice, perhaps a day or two, to prep a
basic news release highlighting the news.
I don't think there's a huge risk of the news getting out. Media
would really need direction from the winning committee to get the full
story. So generally it would be better to be ready and confident with
the news/announcement.
I don't believe WMF formally announced the winner of the upcoming
year's WMania last year, but it might be a good way for us to help
draw attention globally to Wikimania in more general terms... perhaps
in the same big press release we could announce the 2010 location and
then hopefully we'll have media registration for Buenos Aires ready?
Or if we haven't got anything new to report for BA, then we could just
have a few quotes from both teams talking about Wikimania.
Thanks!
--
Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609
On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:27 PM, effe iets anders wrote:
Maybe Jay could give his opinion as well, as the PR
person from the
WMF (in cc)
Lodewijk
2009/4/21 Joseph Seddon <josephseddon(a)googlemail.com>
Don't shoot for PR, just try to make the best bid you
can so that the conference runs smoothly, not with glamour.
Its to do with having a high degree of professionalism.
Seddon
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