As long as the "cabal" who "took full control" of Wikimania is capable of fully organizing it (or able to set up an organizing team anywhere in the world), I think this is nothing else but a step called: professionalisation.
Actually if it works well, it can bring this event to regions and places where otherwise it could not be made (i.e. lack of or insufficient or unreliable local volunteer manpower / no local org / whatever ) reducing the location problem only to logistics, thus widening the possibilities greatly.
I would love to see a fix event organizer team, let it be volunteer based (like the CEE meeting, which was a success) or paid staff (like WMDE has).
Balázs
2015-10-05 15:53 GMT+02:00 Steffen Prößdorf wiki@stepro.de:
Am 04.10.2015 um 20:06 schrieb Ilario Valdelli:
On 04.10.2015 19:48, Pavel Richter wrote:
2015-10-04 17:42 GMT+02:00 Florence Devouard anthere9@yahoo.com:
Le 04/10/15 16:15, Theo10011 a écrit :
Now, beside head rolling... (uh, ouch :)) what do you suggest to fix that ?
So, what happened? The Wikimania committee came to the conclusion that the current process to select the next Wikimania host is broken (and I think the committee was right about that). So something needed to happen - and the committee did something that we see not often enough in Wikimedia-land: *they made a decision*.
This is good.
But I think that the main point to fix is that a decision is valid as soon it is communicated.
At the moment it does not seem that the local communities were informed in order to know that the process was broken.
Kind regards
This fits in quite a number of decisions. Better no one can say that Wikimania isn't a community event anymore, but a Foundation event instead of.
Why asking anyone else?
Fuck the community, who cares?
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