2015-10-04 22:42 GMT+02:00 Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com:
Of course it is the committee to have its say about Wikimania.
If I understand it well, the main problem was that the bid period was from August to November 2015, and some groups were working on their bids. They feel that they could have saved a lot of work if they had known before.
Yes, I agree, Ziko. And I do not take it lightly. As I said, communications was really, really bad here. So WMF would be well advised o invite everyone who worked on a bid to Montreal 2017, all costs covered. And maybe Lila would be well advised to call the good folks who prepared a bid as well.
BUT: That is not the main point. The main point is that Wikimedia now has replaced a broken process. And we should celebrate that. (And if it turns out that the new process does not work, than it will be changed again. Hopefully not by consensus, but by a small group of people who just say: Enough is enough).
Pavel
Kind regards Ziko
2015-10-04 22:38 GMT+02:00 Fæ faewik@gmail.com:
The ends should be used as the justification of the means.
Never.
Fae On 4 Oct 2015 21:31, "Pavel Richter" mail@pavelrichter.de wrote:
2015-10-04 21:55 GMT+02:00 Theo10011 de10011@gmail.com:
Those are some pretty broad leaps Pavel. They were never tasked to
take
that decision. They came to a conclusion that the process is broken,
they
thought to do away with the process, they picked a winner, and set
about
corresponding with them, without telling anyone. Then, developed an
entire
roadmap of where they want to see Wikimania next for the near
foreseeable
future. All of this was never tasked to them in the first place.
This committee isn't "community approved", their mandate isn't
community
approved. Its members weren't elected, in fact, I don't know why and
how
these people got on this committee, or how long they will be
in-charge -
because someone certainly seems to think they are in-charge. Maybe I
missed
a call or notification asking to join or approve or comment as to who should be on this committee.
Regards Theo
Theo, you argue process, I argue outcome. They faced a problem, they tackled it, they made a decission. And their mandate? They *showed up and volunteered*. That is enough mandate in my book.
The revolution will not be community-approved.
Pavel
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