<div dir="ltr">Any bid should be a serious bid, it'd be offensive to potential sponsors, venues and any outside organisations to waste their time on it and it could also damage to WMA reputation.<br><br>Additional benefit doing it as a Wikimania bid is that whether we get Wikimania or not we can commit to holding an event at that time anyway. Given City of Melbourne interest in wiki building and the work of Brianna(and others) with them we have an ideal location for either event <br>
<br>Gn.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/30 Angela <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beesley@gmail.com">beesley@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids/Melbourne" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids/Melbourne</a><br>
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</div>Are there plans to really turn this into a serious bid? If there are,<br>
I'd rather be involved in that and resign from the jury, but I thought<br>
the idea was always to have a smaller practice event in Australia<br>
first, which not only increases our chance of winning the bid but<br>
ensures we can do it and gives us some experience with getting<br>
sponsors on board.<br>
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Angela<br>
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