On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Jay Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org wrote:
I don't believe WMF formally announced the winner of the upcoming year's WMania last year,
Kinda. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimania_2008 However, I think this was more because we were hosting it *with* BA (the Egyptian one ;-)) and they weren't just the conference venue.
but it might be a good way for us to help draw attention globally to Wikimania in more general terms... perhaps in the same big press release we could announce the 2010 location and then hopefully we'll have media registration for Buenos Aires ready?
That sounds like a good idea.