[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimania 2006 - host city contest to open onSeptember 1st 20

[Arne Klempert]

On 8/16/05, Robin Shannon <robin.shannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about Australia - home of Tim Starling among many others - or
> even NZ if for some reason we are wanting to only hold these things in
> developed countries. But i dont see what is wrong with the idea of
> Brazil, India, SA, Argentina or somewhere similar. There are a
> reasonable number of wikimedians in the larger countries in the global
> south.

Perhaps you should talk to these Wikipedians and encourage them to
take part in the city contest instead of talking about them ;) Such
theoretical discussions are nice, but what is really needed are people
on site who are willing and able to take care of organisation tasks.

-- Arne (akl)