--- Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
We should get some hard facts before excluding the US completely from consideration.
Exactly. Part of the bid process for each potential host city can and should look into these issues. We should also look at where people are likely to come from and at what total participation would be for any event in any city bid.
No nation should be excluded at this point. Each bid should be looked at in its entirety. Some parts of the bid may be less than ideal (such as access from certain other nations or cost of travel), but other parts of the bid could very well make up for that.
We could also explore ways to help mitigate against worst cases (such as the foundation contacting the host citys government beforehand to see if tourist visas could be more easily granted for the event ; Im sure many governments do that for conferences).
In the future we may also want to have national WikiMeets.
-- mav
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