It depends.

All sponsors need the maximum. If someone accepts your proposal I think that it could be a bad sponsor.

No other to say.

Ilario

----Messaggio originale---- Da: saintonge@telus.net Data: 06.11.06 19.56 A: valdelli@bluemail.ch, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@wikimedia.org Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2007 Team Bulletin, 5 November, 2006

valdelli@bluemail.ch wrote:

As I have said in the previous emails, I hope that the

organization

of following Wikimanias will not ask to have sponsors in advance because to say at sponsors that a town has not been chosen will

avoid

in the future to ask other support from them.

I think this is really a matter of how organizers talk with their potential sponsors. Some level of commitment from sponsors should be required to satisfy the selection committee that local organizers have more available than wishful thinking. It also needs to be made absolutely clear to sponsors that their support is conditional on their city being awarded Wikimania. Sponsors need to understand that similar efforta are being made in other cities. Until Wikimania has been awarded it would be unethical for a local organizing committee to accept anything from the potential sponsor other than a letter of conditional commitment.