I think we should withdraw like Karlsruhe did. There is no way we can hope to host Wikimania next year as it is. I am not prepared to do any more work for the bid at this time - I've written a long-ish email about it but it's not ready :).

On 9/14/07, James Hardy wikimediauk@weeb.biz wrote:

I'd be willing to look at this if no one else fancies it. I think that this would be immensly helpful for us to have an idea of how much it would cost and therefore how much would need to be raised in sponsorship (the area in which IMHO our bid seems weakest)

On 14/09/2007, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote:

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Titan Deng theodoranian@gmail.com Date: Sep 13, 2007 4:33 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] For Wikimania 2008 bidders To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hi, Wikimania 2008 bidders,

I was informed by an Alexandria bidder that it is necessary for bidders to take a look of the WM07 budget, for your better imagination and calculation. I would love to share these information with you, and I have already started to write a summary report in detail for better organization of Wikimania. (Though it is still in Chinese currently) As a member of the Wikimania 2008 bidding jury, I hope every bidding team are on the same ground. So, there's nothing I have already told to Alexandria.

The budget is in my Google docs and spreadsheets. I think it will be good that every bidding team could let one person to read the WM07 budget. However, we had signed some agreements with confidential obligations, so I hope that the person who I share the budget with could help me on this. Don't show it to people not related to your bidding. If it is not hard for you to follow, then please inform me the person's email. :)

Titan Deng | Theodoranian Wikimania 2007 Coordinator _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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At 13:57 +0100 14/9/07, Gary Kirk wrote:

I think we should withdraw like Karlsruhe did. There is no way we can hope to host Wikimania next year as it is. I am not prepared to do any more work for the bid at this time - I've written a long-ish email about it but it's not yet ready. Like our bid :).

What says the UK Chapter directors?

Gordo