On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:38 PM, phoebe ayers brassratgirl@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think telling the community precludes sending a more formal press release later from either the winning chapter and/or the Foundation. Effe is right, that it's a good chance to build excitement locally, but I see one as an 'internal' announcement (even though it's public) and the other as an 'external' announcement (really making sure media sees it).
That's what it seems like to me too. Telling wikimania-l may seem like "public", but it's not really. I don't think we have any journalists who actually search the archives of this list for stories. :-)