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]