Hi Roel,<div><br></div><div>Josh contacted me privately a long time ago about this suggestion indeed. I am glad you have found the time to bring it up on this list too. </div><div><br></div><div>To make Wiki Loves Monuments a success, I think it is important to have a limited time frame (focus), otherwise attention will slip. A contest of 7 (!) months doesn&#39;t seem viable to me. Of course it would not hurt at all to start communicating earlier to your online community at an early moment, it would actually be a very good thing. But communicating to the wider audience should happen at a limited time period to leave an impression and effect. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Perhaps you could first give us an idea why you want to launch early, and how you would envision that in more detail? I also understood from Josh at the time that you had many more changes to the very fundamental concept in mind which might be relevant. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Also, it could be helpful if you could update on how far you are with preparing your local infrastructure (do you have contacts with local partners, do you have volunteers, what kind of monument lists have you built) to help us understand the situation you&#39;re in. We will of course like last year build a progress table, but that is not ready yet because the whole timeline is built to be finished in September. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Lodewijk<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">No dia 31 de Janeiro de 2012 13:29, Roel Balingit <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:roel.balingit@wikimedia.org.ph">roel.balingit@wikimedia.org.ph</a>&gt;</span> escreveu:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<div><br></div><div>The Philippines would like to launch the project towards the end of March to coincide with the onset of the summer and travel season in the country. We have been made aware, that the infrastructure would not be ready until September, and thus from the launching date which is targeted to be March 24, until September we would be constantly promoting the competition, and just continuously update the participants on how to upload their entries once the infrastructure is ready.</div>


<div><br></div><div>Would there by any problems or objections on our move?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,153,153);font-weight:bold"><b>____________________________________</b></span><br>


</font><div style><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">ROEL BALINGIT</font></b></div><div style><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Treasurer / Wiki Loves Monuments Philippines Project Lead</i></font></b></div>


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