When people mentioned Stanford last night, I asked their Open Source Lab's event mailing list, and found a couple people willing to help, one of whom (Todd Davies) is willing to act as an academic sponsor. So I created a bid page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids/Stanford All we need is to sign up local sponsors (e.g. Google, Oracle, who else?) to pay for the venues and as much on campus room and board as possible, if we want to be sure to beat Montreal and Tokyo. I hope we can talk about that at the Meetup on the 6th. I'm not partial to whether this is a 2011 or a 2012 bid, but the instructions said that a 2011 bid was still likely feasible. I would prefer Stanford to UCSC because it's closer to me, but I would also wholeheartedly support a UC Berkeley, UCSF, USF, etc. bids. Those are closer still to me, but logistically they seem more problematic in terms of accommodations, parking, raising sponsorship funds, etc. I would prefer to avoid conference facilities without libraries. Cheers, James _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf

Irina Zaks of Stanford's Open Source Lab has offered to help get the pricing information and the contact information for someone at Stanford Facilities who I hope can answer the availability question. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Luca de Alfaro <luca(a)dealfaro.org> wrote: how idea? wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf