[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2007 Team Bulletin, 5 November, 2006

[valdelli at bluemail.ch]

It depends.

All sponsors need the maximum. If someone accepts your proposal I 
think that it could be a bad sponsor.

No other to say.

Ilario


----Messaggio originale----
Da: saintonge at telus.net
Data: 06.11.06 19.56
A: <valdelli at bluemail.ch>, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2007 Team Bulletin, 5 
November, 2006

valdelli at bluemail.ch wrote:

>As I have said in the previous emails, I hope that the 
organization 
>of following Wikimanias will not ask to have sponsors in advance 
>because to say at sponsors that a town has not been chosen will 
avoid 
>in the future to ask other support from them.
>
I think this is really a matter of how organizers talk with their 
potential sponsors.  Some level of commitment from sponsors should 
be 
required to satisfy the selection committee that local organizers 
have 
more available than wishful thinking.  It also needs to be made 
absolutely clear to sponsors that their support is conditional on 
their 
city being awarded Wikimania.  Sponsors need to understand that 
similar 
efforta are being made in other cities.  Until Wikimania has been 
awarded it would be unethical for a local organizing committee to 
accept 
anything from the potential sponsor other than a letter of 
conditional 
commitment.