On 7/6/11, Charles Andrès charles.andres@wikimedia.ch wrote:
Participation of the swiss pictures and communication are false problems, no one wil do "european" communication, it will be the sum of national communication.
In switzerland we will communicate that the contest is european, and that's all, honestly people don't care about the length of the contestvand the exact number of participating country.
After the contest, it will be the same, nobody will remember the format of the contest, but we will communicate about the number of pictures upload, and at this moment nobody will come to argue that swiss pictures doesn't count :-)
The fact that we already start doesn't mean that we won't help to organize the contest! Btw, who's in charge of looking sponsor from camera companies? Sony has a special program for that, if nobody try canon or nikon or other brand for the moment, I could try Sony CH
As a general thing, I think now is a good time to advertise WLM to the general public. People tend to travel more in July and August, and someone may be interested in making a small detour to take a photo of a monument in a small village but they wouldn't be so likely to travel 200 km on a weekend in September. My feeling is that large cities and famous landmarks are already well covered in Commons, but less known monuments in smaller places are not. Then, I don't see a big problem in waiting until September to upload the pics. Cruccone