The bid and the people working on it suggested it. I suppose we can always create our own website for our information, and show people to the bid on one of the pages. I was just throwing it out. I didn't expect a negative reaction.

----- Original Message ---- From: THD theodoranian@gmail.com To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:26:13 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Open Wikimania 2008 website?

Hi, Mike,

Please clarify that to open a website of the Conference is a request from you, or Atlanta Bid, or Atlanta Bid's sponsor (which needs to be convinced). Thank you.

Regards, Theodoranian

2007/9/12, Mike Halterman haltermannews@yahoo.com: I understand that, however, my main concern is utmost professionalism in presentation to people we have to convince to help us. To me, linking to a wiki doesn't exactly have that quality, not 100%. And there's only so much you can say before they want to see something, and I'm afraid a wiki page does not have the best statement that it can.

-Mike Halterman Atlanta Bid

----- Original Message ---- From: THD < theodoranian@gmail.com> To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) <wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:08:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Open Wikimania 2008 website?

I think it is better to open the Wikimania 2008 website after the host city get chosen. Meta is a place to coordinate biddings, but Wikimania website is for the official use of the event. Since there will be only one city get chosen as the host, I am afraid that other bidders' proposals on the same website would confuse people.

Regards, Theodoranian

2007/9/12, Mike Halterman < haltermannews@yahoo.com>: We were discussing in our IRC meeting a more professional and easier to navigate place to present our bid to prospective press and sponsors. Can the Wikimania 2008 website on Wikimedia be opened for all of us to present our big aims there instead of having to direct people to different pages on Meta, which they may not be 100% aware of navigating?

-Mike Halterman Atlanta Bid

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