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.
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)
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.
4) We got accepted at DISH 2011, and can do the prize announcement in the
presentation there.
In other words: although it sounds like an exciting opportunity, it requires
a lot of work and budget - both recourses being thin spread. If someone else
is able to find the budget and capacity to organize it, we can of course
consider it though - but in that case I'd like to know first a bit more what
such a ceremony would look like.
best,
lodewijk
2011/8/23 Sylvain Boissel <sylvain.boissel(a)wikimedia.fr>
Hello all,
As Benoît already told on this list some time ago (if I remember well),
people from Wikimédia France went to the European Parliament in Brussels by
the end of June. There, we discussed a certain number of things, including
the possibility of hosting a European WLM Awards Ceremony in the Espace
Léopold/Leopoldruimte(1) (in December according to the timeline (2))
We are now in late August, so the parliamentary vacations will end soon and
it's time to contact them again... But before doing that, I need to know if
people from the other European countries are as excited as we are at
Wikimédia France by this opportunity.
What do you think about it ?
Regards,
--
Sylvain Boissel
Wikimédia France - Tech and community manager
www.wikimedia.fr
06.18.90.71.04 - sylvain.boissel(a)wikimedia.fr
(1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espace_L%C3%A9opold
(2)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Timeline
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