2011/8/23 Lodewijk
<lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>
Hi Sylvain, all,
although it sounds exciting, I'm afraid we have to be realistic.
1) 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.
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.
2) 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 ?
3) 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 ;)
4) 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.