--- Gatto Nero gattonero@gmail.com wrote:
2006/9/29, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
In Taipei we will have a completely different
event from the event in
Frankfurt and Boston. Each time we learned new
things and the resulting
offers for hosting were different as a
consequence. Not allowing for this by
saying in advance that Turin does not have to do
"the work" again is imho
stupid. In order for Turin to be a competitor next
year, they have to
analyse what went wrong; was it their offer, their
presentation sheer bad
luck?
Turin is not in Asia. (Oh, and we didn't talk about "secret sponsorship", right: how came that a bid as been even shortlisted with this sort of "Yes, you have to trust us: we have a huuuuuge sponsor but we cannot tell you who, secret secret!"? Not talking about strange flight cost, strange "surplus sponsorship" and other funny reason...)
[Beware: this is Gatto Nero's opinion, not "Wikimania2007Torino Bidding Team"'s opinion]
I don't see a problem with not being able to publicly name a sponser. I am sure they were aware that winning the bid was based on this and if it had not been posted publically afterwards the win should have beeen revoked. Strange flight costs do sound like a problem, but I don't know what mean by this. Have they changed their numbers after they won?
Birgitte SB
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