Some interesting comments here!

First of all the idea of WMUK supporting the bid has been chewed over by the board for many months. In the end they agreed to support the bid.

Wikimania bids have not come from chapters traditionally but from volunteers in the local community. The support of the local chapter, if there is one, is seen as a plus.

If the bid is successful we will work out a way of balancing the support the chapter can give with the desires of the independent bidding team.  As Chris says this has been harmonious so far and we have offered them space in the office when they needed it.

So beyond that there are no plans. Obviously we have been thinking about options and talking to previous hosts and the foundation about what would be good practice.

But get involved!

It isn't the Olympic but it would be BIG. Taking off my CEO at I will be lobbying for WIkimania only cycle lanes between the Barbican and the office,

Jon

On 19 March 2013 08:52, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 19 March 2013 08:40, James Farrar <james.farrar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps I'm being particularly dumb this early in the morning, but I
> can't actually see why these semantics matter - certainly compared
> with, for example, delivering a high-quality bid.
>
> On 19 March 2013 08:26, Charles Matthews
> <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> On 18 March 2013 23:16, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 18 March 2013 23:10, Katie Chan <ktc@ktchan.info> wrote:
>>>> In this case, the bid isn't being submitted by volunteers and members of
>>>> Wikimedia UK as part of Wikimedia UK.
>>>
>>> The bid is funded by WMUK, the bid team are operating out of the WMUK
>>> office and the intention is for everything to be booked and paid for
>>> in the name of WMUK. Explain to me how this isn't a WMUK bid...
>>
>> I am unfamiliar with the concept of a "WMUK volunteer". Wikimedian
>> volunteers who happen to be in the UK may have no connection at all to
>> WMUK, and throwing the phrase around is unhelpful.

In short, because the stakeholder analysis in the WMUK comms strategy
seems to me not to have been implemented. A stakeholder analysis is
not "semantics": it is being clear about the vague concept of
"community". A comms strategy is what you rely on when you suddenly
need people to turn up and back a major event. Not having an adequate
one can bite you in the bum.

Charles

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