I am not sure about that is a waste of energy though
for area with a chapter like us in Hong Kong such a bid is a nice cause to get reach people around to seek potential sponsor for smaller scale events
and a great way to test out our connections
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 16:55, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
On 11/23/11 11:17 AM, James Forrester wrote:
On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreedejanbart@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. :-)
I agree that 19 months is short. The first three didn't even have that much time.
Bidding is still a competitive process. I remember that the organizers from Turin were very upset when their excellent bid failed. To get the best bid I don't think we can avoid competition, though we can probably develop a short list fairly early on, so that the less likely candidates can limit their efforts.
Ray
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