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From: Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Canada planning list <wikimedia-ca@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 7:45:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Wikimania 2010

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I notice that the jury left open a strong possibility that returning to
> North America will influence the 2010 bid. I think we should start ASAP with
> a official bid for 2010. Someone mentioned that Australia might be a strong
> adversary. I came up with an idea that might secure Toronto Wikimania.

Bidding for 2010 is unlikely to open up for quite a while, but you are
correct that everyone has commented that there will be a strong want
for a Europe/North America Wikimania in 2010...

> I am looking into forming a Wikimedia Chapter for the Western United States
> and sub chapters for several western states.  If this comes to fruit, I would
> be willing to trade support for 2010 in toronto if Canada was willing to
> support Reno or San Diego in 2011. To win over Wikimedia Australia, we could
> offer to partially subsidize their airfare.

Even if the jury was impressed by that, it is extremely doubtful that
Wikimania would be held on the same continent two years in a row.

Sorry, but I don't think this would help "secure" a Wikimania in Tornoto. :-(

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