I invested a significant amount of time trying to get WMC off the ground. Here were my conclusions: 1) We lost the purpose of the group in the details of forming it 2) We did not have a solid management team living in proximity of each other that would meet face to face regularly. 3) There were many objections on some idealistic principals about getting all of Canada involved where really we needed to simply start the organization, not define it's entire future with the steering group. 4) There was a lot of debate on bylaws, but naturally people lost interest as the endless debates went on.
I think people dream of a huge organization without understanding that an entity like this must go through growing phases. I live in the Toronto area, if you can drum up 4 other individuals in this area that are going to seriously commit to making this happen, I'm willing to start rolling the ball again.
If we can get a group of people to work together in Toronto to make a Toronto bid for Wikimania 2011 that might serve as a proving ground to move forward with something formal in regards to WMC.
2010/1/18 brian.chick@left-button.com brian.chick@left-button.com
Hi Alan,
I'm not sure what the status is, but I for one have been following this thread, but haven't had much to say. I'm still interested in MWC but haven't heard much in the way of updates lately either.
As for Wikimania, I don't know enough about it to comment intelligently. Having an organizing body (like MWC) might make a coordinated bid a little easier, no?
Cheers, Brian
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- Re: Fwd: Montreal wikimania bid (Alan Walker)
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Canada? (Alan Walker)
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:04:32 -0500 From: Alan Walker fastalan@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Fwd: Montreal wikimania bid To: Wikimedia Canada planning list wikimedia-ca@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: c08b50e51001180104g180c4a71lceddf3ba1d886a02@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Do we have anyone available to us that has participated in a successful
bid
for Wikimania and organization of the event?
2010/1/18 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net
Andrew Leung wrote:
But it will definitely affects how much funding or promise we can secure *right now*
How? We don't need the funding for right now. As for promises, the government already has experience in cutting previously promised
funding.
Ray
Andrew Leung wrote:
Exactly, currently the only serious contender is Montreal's bid
so
there's definitely room for Toronto's bid. These 2 bids are not mutually exclusive to each other. Speaking of the government,
does
anyone know if (and how) the discussions about funding will be affected when our legislature got prorogued?
The proroguing would have no effect at all. We are talking about a Wikimania that would take place in the summer of 2011. Thus any
funding
would be a part of appropriations for the government fiscal year
ending
March 31, 2012. The budget for that year would only be tabled in
early
- Will Harper still be in power then?
Ray
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