I would strongly encourage you guys to think about it. There is a strong
community which is a very important point. It gives you lots of man power.
Even if you guys dont win this year, you'll learn a lot to bid for the
following year. In fact you may even know your weaknesses better than if you
were to hold off from bidding to just go for one strong bid next year.
I dont want to push you guys, just wanting you to keep your minds open to
bidding in the future :)
If you guys need any advice about getting underway this or any other year
feel free to ask.
Seddon
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Jon Davis <wiki(a)konsoletek.com> wrote:
We (the SF group) have actually talked about doing
before, we just wanted
to have a dry run for it first. That dry run just so happens to be today
and is the West Coast Wikiconference [1].
Seeing is how this "little" shindig oversold by 30% or so, and was really
done in a month by Phoebe & Eugene, I think we could do a Wikimania
-Jon
[1]
http://2011.westcoastwikicon.org/wiki/Main_Page
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 23:36, Joseph Seddon <seddonwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Wikimedia California mailing list,
Earlier this month the bidding for Wikimania 2012 opened and I wanted to
encourage your community to consider submitting a bid. Failing to win
shouldn't stop you since so much can be learnt by bidding anyway nor should
the rotation of Wikimania be an issue since there hasn't been a North
American wikimania since 2006.
Wikimania provides an excellent opportunity for the local community to
come together to work on something big and it may well lead on to other
things so please think about it. Creation of bids closes on February 6th so
there is plenty of time to create a page and start the work on a bid.
California has such a vibrant community and a conference here would be veyr
successful. There is the Stanford bid currently but it might be worth
looking at it and seeing whether there are better options and if not, go
with it and try and make it happen.
If you need any advice please feel free to ask on this list.
Many Thanks
Joseph Seddon
Wikimania 2012 Jury Moderator
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