[Wikimedia-l] Who will host Wikimedia Conference 2014? Bidding process is open!

[Andrea Zanni]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Cristian Consonni
<kikkocristian at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2013/9/18 Balázs Viczián <balazs.viczian at wikimedia.hu>:
> > The thing is that you should start building from the bottom, not from the
> > top. A venue can be secured as late as 3 months before the event to give
> > everyone enough time to plan and get cheap tickets (and I mean first
> > minute, not last minute). Most airline and international train tickets
> are
> > the cheapest if you buy them ~3 months in advance. Not much later, nor
> > earlier, because both are being "penalized" by higher fees. We can find
> out
> > where to have the event as late as early January
>
> May I point out that if you want to be able to book tickets 3 months
> before <event:date> you should start working on <event> at the very
> least six month in advance. How can you tell the destination of your
> booking if you don't know where the event is going to be held?
>
> From WM-IT's experience with WMConf 2013 (which we are discussing to
> replicate) you have to start organizing it in November, no later.
>
> Cristian


Plus, you're forgetting visas.

Aubrey


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