How far ahead do we have to talk to convention venues to get space in this area? I would think they need a loooong lead time.
Ariel
Στις 27-01-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 14:59 -0800, ο/η phoebe ayers έγραψε:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:50 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I would think that properly planning a proposal for something like this would take a lot more than 2 weeks - I've done conference and convention organization work before, and even the rough plan for a proposal took more than 2 weeks, including finding and getting preliminary agreements with venues etc.
Agreed! To clarify: Feb 8 is just the deadline to put down the city name as a possibility. You then have until March 29 to work up the full bid (with team and venue information, etc). Two *months* is still a tight timeline for the amount of information required, though.
The 2012 proposal would be more reasonable, on the basis of having a year to get a team and proposal ready to go.
However, if someone here wants to go gung-ho for 2011 as a practice run or if you think you could actually pull a credible proposal together that fast, more power to you. It would be a good excuse for some gettogethers at least...
Indeed :)
I have worked on planning Wikimania for several years now -- so if anyone has questions about this feel free to ask me directly. Note, I'm not personally committing :) -- but I thought I'd find out if there was any community interest (or pent-up desire!) to host wikimania.
-- phoebe
-george
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:14 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I was asked if the SF-area Wikimedia group had any interest in putting in a bid for Wikimania 2011: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011
The deadline to do so is February 8 -- two weeks away (just to list the bidding city's name; the deadline for full bid info is March 29).
If that's too hard, there's an unofficial page for 2012 already as well: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012
If you don't know what Wikimania is, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania or http://en.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania.
What do y'all think? -- phoebe
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