Great news. Congrats. :)

On 22 December 2015 at 16:23, James Forrester jdforrester@gmail.com wrote:

All,

I am delighted to announce on behalf of the Wikimania Committee that Wikimania, the annual Wikimedia community conference, will be held in Montréal, Canada in 8–13 August 2017.

2017 will be the 375th anniversary of the founding of Montréal as a city, which will make it a great time for a cultural event to take place. Despite being our twelfth Wikimania, Montréal will be our first in a Francophone location, and the Montréal team is working with French-speaking community members worldwide to make Montréal a success. WikiFranca and Wikimedia Canada will be supporting the local team led by Marc-André Pelletier (User:Coren). A press release/announcement from them will be forthcoming. You can contact the team via e-mail at team{at}wikimania.ca.

For 2017, we decided to investigate and vet a revised earlier proposal for Montréal to host while the selection process itself is being reviewed. Selecting and confirming the venue with more lead time ensures cost savings in hotel prices and contract terms; affords us favourable dates and rates; and allows participation and overlap with current and future teams.

Please join us in congratulating the team, and working to support them in holding an excellent conference.

Yours,

James D. Forrester Chair, Wikimania Committee _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe

this has been known for ages the process was usurped from the community really dont see a lot to celebrate or to congratulate anyone about... yes I was the leader of one bid for 2017 that had followed the published process

On 22 December 2015 at 19:05, Rodrigo Padula <rodrigopadula@wikimedia.org.br

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congrats everyone on the local team

Mardetanha

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:

this has been known for ages the process was usurped from the community really dont see a lot to celebrate or to congratulate anyone about... yes I was the leader of one bid for 2017 that had followed the published process

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Sorry Mounir but 2018 was announced as South East Asia, then Europe 2019 followed by North America in 2020, like Perth your first opportunity will be 2021 when it'll be between, South America, Africa, Mid East, Oceania, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and South East Asia(again) for 2021 assuming of course that this new process stays around that long it certainly wont last the pretend 3(21 if fair) year cycle that was decided on behind closed doors some months ago. This was suppose to reflect the way in which wmf collect funds but Oceania which hasnt yet had a wikimania despite two bids from Perth(including 2017 Perth could host and wants to host 2018), and one from Brisbane is the third largest region for donations according 2014 funding reports. WMF received more from there than all other regions(except Europe/Nth America) combined

Given the amoount of work put in to making a bid I dont have an issue with looking at the process, I dont have an issue in giving consideration for Montreal based on the anniversary. What I'm against is it was decided without public consultation, those who put in bids for 2017 following the published process were encouraged to do so, and there was never indication about this until signpost announced Montreal in September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-09-30/News_a...

As I said back then the damage has been done it'll depend on how the WMF address this in the future that will determine if its blip or a disaster, I dont think this quasi fanfare announcing the venue, congratulating people and celebrating a decision that was made moths ago some honesty would have gone a long way to mending the problems caused back then

On 22 December 2015 at 20:41, Mounir Touzri touzrimounir@gmail.com wrote:

congratulations ​, and what about 2018, ​I still support north africa, and Tunis exactly

Le mar. 22 déc. 2015 12:27, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com a écrit :

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this has been known for ages the process was usurped from the community really dont see a lot to celebrate or to congratulate anyone about...

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I was the leader of one bid for 2017 that had followed the published process

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