valdelli(a)bluemail.ch wrote:
As I have said in the previous emails, I hope that the
organization
of following Wikimanias will not ask to have sponsors in advance
because to say at sponsors that a town has not been chosen will avoid
in the future to ask other support from them.
I think this is really a matter of how organizers talk with their
potential sponsors. Some level of commitment from sponsors should be
required to satisfy the selection committee that local organizers have
more available than wishful thinking. It also needs to be made
absolutely clear to sponsors that their support is conditional on their
city being awarded Wikimania. Sponsors need to understand that similar
efforta are being made in other cities. Until Wikimania has been
awarded it would be unethical for a local organizing committee to accept
anything from the potential sponsor other than a letter of conditional
commitment.
Ec