Hungary seems ideally situated to host a Conference for Eastern Europe in 2015? If you organize it properly, it could be pretty big.
2013/5/17 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com
(regional events are usually not called 'wikimania' but something else, however - like Wiki Conference India :)
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
I recommend trying to sell them on organizing a regional event if they don't win the bid for a global one. There have been many successful regional 'manias, and after London 2014 there are some rotation reasons why it would not be an ideal year for a bid in Europe.
SJ
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Balázs Viczián, 14/05/2013 23:30:
- What if a third party applies to create an event? [...]
1/b) What if their bid is the best overall? Would they be allowed to execute it (a.k.a. being announced winners)? [...]
In practice this has already happened, so it doesn't seem particularly strange.
Nemo
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