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.