On 23 November 2011 19:31, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janbart(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 23 nov. 2011, at 20:17, James Forrester wrote:
On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede
<janbart(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
In the past years I have seen a lot of people
spend a lot of time on different bids which never
made it (even though they were pretty good). Could this be the year that we change this
procedure and try to do things differently? I would love to explore how we can avoid a
lot of
people wasting their energy...
How about taking a little time to look at these and other imperfects of the current
system
before jumping right in, and trying to see if we can improve it?
Happy to pause things, but there's limited time (even if we just
awarded it today, 19 months isn't a huge amount of time to organise an
event which is quite a significant amount of work). Previously there
have been calls for the Board to establish a "Committee" of some sort
to oversee Wikimanias and try to come to some agreement about how to
improve the system - but I worry that if we start discussions about
how we're going to decide to decide we'll never get anywhere. :-)
true,
And if I am the only one having these concerns then no worries, but taking a
couple of days to share concerns might be a good idea :)
Sure. I'm totally not going to try to rail-road this discussion (or
maybe it should be on-wiki?) by announcing a Jury when we're not sure
how we'll proceed. :-)
J.
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James D. Forrester
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