2011/8/23 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org
Hi Sylvain, all,
although it sounds exciting, I'm afraid we have to be realistic.
- it is rather impossible to fly in all winners - even if we have the
budget for that (which we don't) - because of the tight time frame. If we fly nobody in, it would basically be a press conference, and no press will be really interested in that I assume.
If by "all winners", you mean the 180 winners (10 selected pics * 18 participating countries), I agree, of course. But flying in the final winners of the European contest (how many are they supposed to be, by the way ? There is no indication about that in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Concept ) can be realistic.
Basically, what we want to do is a combination of the following : - Held a small award ceremony, giving their prize to the winners. No need to have hundreds of people to come... - An exhibition of the winning photographs - A conference about some topic on which we want the eurodeputies to work and which is relevant to the contest (the first thing that comes to mind is Freedom of Panorama.) - At the same time, a "Wikimedia Takes Brussels" :)
IMO, none of these would necesit more time or money than we can afford.
- currently, we have no budget for a ceremony - so you would have to find
that (there was money budgetted, but since we were not able to fill in all budget with money from chapters, we have to limit ourselves)
I think Wikimédia France can pay for what is related to the event itself, and maybe the other European chapters can help with the transportation and accomodation of the winners ?
- at least Maarten and I have no time to organize such a meeting - it
requires quite a lot of work because you need to get an interesting program to attract people in the first place.
Maarten and you have already done much, we don't ask you anything ;)
- We got accepted at DISH 2011, and can do the prize announcement in the
presentation there.
What is it ? I've never heard of that...
Regards, Sylvain.