it costs a lot of time yes. That's for sure. but on the other hand you can select the best city this way. You can not prospect how good the other bids will be when you don't give them the chance to proof themselves.
But you can go in between. you can do the selection on an earlier point in the selection procedure, and make the demands smaller. Them you can make a selection earlier in the process of preperation, and less time will be "lost". But if you want another procedure, make one, and don't skip the procedure and just choose one. Because next year you will then have an even huger problem, as there will be no bidding candidates which are somehow experienced, and you will have a lot of cities bidding which don't have to be good.
lodewijk
2006/9/28, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
On 28/09/06, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
If you mean here that we should now already pick Turin to "do" wikimania 2008, I think that would be inappropriate. There are a lot of other cities working on a bid right now, and it would be extremely unfair to change the rules now and don't give others the chance to make their bid up, which might be better, as you don't know what you can expect. Please let's just follow the procedure as stated by the " picking committee" (how should I call them? ;-) ) before and let people prepare their bid, and pick one about november, december. If you meant otherwise, please forgive my lack of english :-)
The procedure as it is evidently needs work, since other bidders (e.g. London) are disappointed at their hard work being pretty much wasted.
The current system seems to ensure a lot of volunteer time and effort being futile. This is damaging to the project.
- d.
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