Hi Sylvain, all,<div><br></div><div>although it sounds exciting, I&#39;m afraid we have to be realistic. </div><div>1) it is rather impossible to fly in all winners - even if we have the budget for that (which we don&#39;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. </div>

<div>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)</div>

<div>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.</div><div>4) We got accepted at DISH 2011, and can do the prize announcement in the presentation there. </div>

<div><br></div><div>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&#39;d like to know first a bit more what such a ceremony would look like. </div>

<div><br></div><div>best,</div><div><br></div><div>lodewijk</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/8/23 Sylvain Boissel <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sylvain.boissel@wikimedia.fr">sylvain.boissel@wikimedia.fr</a>&gt;</span><br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello all,
<div><br></div><div>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))</div>



<div><br></div><div>We are now in late August, so the parliamentary vacations will end soon and it&#39;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.</div>



<div><br></div><div>What do you think about it ?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div>-- <br><font color="#888888"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136, 136, 136)">Sylvain Boissel</span><div>



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<div><div>(1) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espace_L%C3%A9opold" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espace_L%C3%A9opold</a></div><div>(2) <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Timeline" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Timeline</a></div>


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