This is a follow-up to a posting to this list by the Wikimania Committee in July soliciting proposals for people who might be interested in hosting a future Wikimania (especially 2018 and 2019), as follows:

We are now looking for proposals of teams and locations. This is not a bidding process; we are keen for this to be a light-weight, simple request for suggestions. You don’t need to have a venue locked down, contracts drafted or sponsors lined up. You can have a quick look at the “judging criteria” which were used for 2016,[2] but the key part is commitment. In deciding where to hold conferences, we have to take into account additional factors about potential sites such as cost, accessibility, and security. ​

I will be following up with various people who have expressed interest in the coming week.  If anyone  else is interested in discussing the possibilities (the team/prospective host need not be tied to a particular venue), please get in touch with me directly by October 30, 2016.    We will be working with the WM

in the coming months in finalizing a venue/team for 2018, and we also want to get an early start at identifying potentials for the following year.​

Thank you,

Ellie Young

WMF Events Manager

eyoung@wikimedia.org

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[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria