Prehaps to avoid similar things happening in the future, an idea of giving 24-48 hours
notice should be given to bids directly to put things in order before making things official.
Not sure it would be put in place but an idea to consider.

Seddon

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Craig Franklin <craig@halo-17.net> wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/4/21 Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek@gmail.com>:
>
>> Yes. I suggest to tell all the teams representatives the final
>> decission before it will be officially announced. Maybe it is even
>> more important for those two who won't be happy to have Wikimania in
>> 2010, as there might be plenty of unnecesary  frustration after being
>> informed about it via press.
>>
>
> That would impressive work by the press to hear about the result and
> contact the local team/chapter before they were able to check their
> email. I agree, it wouldn't be a very nice way to find out if it did
> happen, though.
>
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Well, I know that when the Brisbane bid last time around was struck
without first being informed, I received plenty of distressed mobile
calls from our bidding partners before I happened to log on and check my
email.  Needless to say, I was pretty annoyed at being put on the spot
by the bid committee like that.

Cheers,
Craig

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