I am not sure about that is a waste of energy though
for area with a chapter like us in Hong Kong
such a bid is a nice cause to get reach people around
to seek potential sponsor for smaller scale events
and a great way to test out our connections
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 16:55, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
On 11/23/11 11:17 AM, James Forrester wrote:
On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de
Vreede<janbart(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> In the past years I have seen a lot of people
spend a lot of time on
different bids which never
> made it (even though they were pretty good).
Could this be the year
that we change this
> procedure and try to do things differently? I
would love to explore how
we can avoid a lot of
> people wasting their energy...
>
> How about taking a little time to look at these and other imperfects of
the
current system
before
jumping right in, and trying to see if we can improve it?
Happy to pause things,
but there's limited time (even if we just
awarded it today, 19 months isn't a huge amount of time to organise an
event which is quite a significant amount of work). Previously there
have been calls for the Board to establish a "Committee" of some sort
to oversee Wikimanias and try to come to some agreement about how to
improve the system - but I worry that if we start discussions about
how we're going to decide to decide we'll never get anywhere. :-)
I agree that 19 months is short. The first three didn't even have that
much time.
Bidding is still a competitive process. I remember that the organizers
from Turin were very upset when their excellent bid failed. To get the
best bid I don't think we can avoid competition, though we can probably
develop a short list fairly early on, so that the less likely candidates
can limit their efforts.
Ray
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