There is no secret sponsorship for Taipei anymore. They are DotAsia.org and Chung-Hwa Telecom in Taiwan and they did promise the amount as we listed in the bidding page. And I believe there will be more amounts because now we have more sponsors willing to help.

We keep it secret before the bidding final because DotAsia.org has bussiness in many cities, and they do not wish to offend their customers in those cities so they ask us to keep it secret until the bidding result is out.

And if you wish to know, a employee from DotAsia.org now is in our team to help for organizing Wikimania 2007.

I wish to remind that we should respect the sponsors because they recognize the vision of Wikimedia Foundation and they are willing to help us to host this big WM event.

For the flight price, the fare we listed on the bidding page is the fare we checked in *this* August. And yes it might have estimation errors because the fare is changing every day and it should be firmed when the time of Wikimania 2007 is coming closely. It would be also related with what travel agency you choose and how you take the flight.

Thanks and best regards, H.T.

-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gatto Nero Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:06 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

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...)

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