Just tell you guys a little secret.
Actually Kul recommends us to take the bid, and I think he has his reason, maybe it suits the movement or strategies of Wikimedia, maybe.

For the air tickets, we will to get sponsor from Cathay Pacific, but before this, we need to confirm we can get the sponsorship from cyberport and we sure it will hold in Hong Kong.

For Thomas, I think I won't keep it in my mind seriously. If his theory is correct, then we should stop all the non-euro projects because 67% of chapters are euro, and WMFoundation should put all the resource in euro, and they will care about other regions three years later. It doesn't make sense, right?

Chapters meeting is not a meeting for chapters. It can also boost a lot of things, locally, regionally, or even globally. Chapters meeting in Asia can really put the spotlight on Asia, especially we already have an Asian chair and Wikimania 2011 in Israel.

So air ticket is not everything at all.

Cheers,
Morgan

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On Aug 8, 2010, at 20:46, Josh Lim <jamesjoshualim@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'd have to agree with Siska here.  Like what Thomas said in chapters-L, given that most chapters are in Europe, the Foundation saves more by bringing the less numerous Asians, Australians and Americans (North and South) to Europe than the other way around.

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From: Siska Doviana <siska.doviana@wikimedia.or.id>
To: Asian Wikimedia Chapters coordination <wikimedia-asia-chapters@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sun, August 8, 2010 8:25:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Chapters Meeting 2011

Morgan,

As painful as it may sound, the European will let the Asian travel
twice, rather than them going to Hong Kong for chapter's meeting.

I think Illario's email sounded the most reasonable one. Personal
view, I don't think even the UK will win the bid for chapter's
meeting, other European chapter's preferences are leaning toward to
held in again in Germany for the next 3 years, or perhaps 2, then open
for bidding.

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On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Morgan Chan <morgand536@wikimedia.hk> wrote:
> I also want to clarify this.
> If we can successfully take the bid of the Chapter Meeting 2011,
> we will combine our Wikimedia Asia Project in one series of conference,
> then for the Asians, they don't need to travel twice.
>
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Morgan Chan <morgand536@wikimedia.hk> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all:
>> Just wanna let you know about Hong Kong is planning to take the Chapters
>> Meeting 2011.
>> We already contacted our main possible sponsor Cyberport, to support the
>> venue, catering,
>> accommodation and local transportation (maybe even air tickets). We are
>> still negotiating
>> with them.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberport
>> So if there are any update, i will post it here ASAP.
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Morgan Chan
>> ----------------------------------------------------
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>> Member of Communications committee, Wikimedia Foundation
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>> Tel.：+852 9012-2178
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>> Twitter: morgand536
>
>
>
> --
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