[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations

[Theo10011]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede
<janbart at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Disclaimer: this is my personal opinion, and in no way represents any
> sentiments of the board.
>
> That being said
>
> 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?
>
> Jan-Bart
>
>
Hey Jan-Bart

I agree with the general sentiment. Any ideas on how to go about this?

Regards
Theo