[Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

[valdelli at bluemail.ch]

I reply as the previous year... it depends. 

How many persons must make a long journey? How many persons are 
lucky?

I said that the previous year about the choose of Boston: how many 
participants has had Wikimania 2006?

To partecipate is important but not mandatory.

Ilario



----Messaggio originale----
Da: stephen.bain at gmail.com
Data: 02.10.06 11.10
A: <valdelli at bluemail.ch>, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

On 10/2/06, valdelli at bluemail.ch <valdelli at bluemail.ch> wrote:
>
> To go in Taipei or in Boston or in Sidney is very expensive for 
a
> wikipedian, and most of all wikipedians are students with a 
little
> bit of money.

"For a Wikipedian"? I presume you meant to say "for a Wikipedian 
in
Europe". There are plenty of contributors in other parts of the 
world,
including an emergent community across Asia for whom Taipei is a
highly accessible location.

It's expensive both ways to travel long distances, remember, so
choosing location based on population is a surefire way to 
guarantee
that huge numbers of Wikimedians will never attend a Wikimania.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com