Hi Ilario
Op 4-6-2011 14:40, Ilario Valdelli schreef:
On 04.06.2011 11:59, Maarten Dammers wrote:
Hi Nico,
Some remarks:
* The press release states that the competition runs from Juli
to September. The decision in Berlin was pretty clear: The
competition runs in September. Why are you doing this
differently?
* You're talking about a national competition, but Wiki Loves
Monuments is an international competition all throughout Europe.
* Why do people need to register at http://www.wikilovesmonuments.ch/login.php
? That's one of the things we decided (at the Berlin meeting)
*not* to do.
Maarten
Dear Maarten,
I will give to Nico the possibility to reply to other points. I
have only one concern.
If the event is limited only to the month of September, this would
be not helpful for Switzerland because the weather is not good to
take some external pictures, most of all for mountains or valleys.
In addition we are moving earlier to find collaborations and media
coverage.
In my opinion there should be no problem to give more freedom to
all countries in order to study the better solution for their own
environment.
To limit the event to the month of September will reduce a lot our
participation as the persons will be concentrated in other thinks.
In my opinion the months of July and August are the best for
Switzerland.
We may found a solution that can match all requirements? For
example that the photos can be taken from July to September but
charged in Commons only in September?
It seems to me a good solution, because the persons can spent all
time to take photos during the Summer and after to be concentrated
in all other work during September (selection of photos, upload,
and so on).
Did you notice
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/May_Meeting/Notes/Results#Result_wrapup
?
In short: We don't care when you took the photo, we just want you to
upload them in September 2011. So having people taking pictures all
throughout the summer is something that fits in great with the whole
concept :-)
Ilario
P.S. If I remember well Nico has already sent a request some weeks
ago, before the meeting in Berlin, asking to give to the
Switzerland the possibility to move earlier in this event, and I
have seen no opposition
And it ended up on the list of things to discus in Berlin. The
reason to focus on one month and not three months is that we have to
keep attention on it. For a month that's already a bit of a
challenge, for three months it's impossible. We're all slowly
building up attention for the project and this should peak in
September 2011.
Is this something you guys can work with?
Maarten