2008/7/23 Tom Holden <thomas.holden@gmail.com>:

Well do we know what reasons other than cost or "the wrong continent" have been given for bids failing in the past?

Re: Al, We'll know better where we are with accommodation after I've had this meeting with the OII director. If I convince him a meeting will then be arranged with the master of Balliol and we can find out quite how generous (if at all) they're prepared to be towards us. I don't think it would hurt to have someone else at the meeting, so if anyone can make it let me know.

Tom

We've only had one serious bid, afaik. That was 2007. We'd had 2005 in Frankfurt, Europe, so I'm assuming that was too soon after a European Wikimania. We'd also just had it in Boston, so I think they were looking for a non-Western bid. I think the other problem was money. You may want to look at the archives of the Wikimania mailing list, or the foundation mailing list at the time of the decision for the 2007 conference.
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Al Tally
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