[Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

[Birgitte SB]

I don't see how this can be avoided, if we want the
sort of high quality bids we saw for 2007.  The only
reason people pushed so hard for such great results
was because they knew they were in competition and had
a chance of losing.  If we focus on minimizing the
amount of wasted effort then we will end up minmizing
the quality of the bids.  

I don't see any reason to scrap the system which
brought us the Turin and Tapei bids without any better
alternative.


Birgitte SB



--- David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28/09/06, effe iets anders
> <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > But if you want another procedure, make one,
> > and don't skip the procedure and just choose one.
> Because next year
> > you will then have an even huger problem, as there
> will be no bidding
> > candidates which are somehow experienced, and you
> will have a lot of
> > cities bidding which don't have to be good.
> 
> 
> I don't have to have a replacement to be able to
> notice that the
> current one is clearly damaging. Sending some of the
> Foundation's
> hardest-working volunteers on a futile task is
> utterly demotivating.
> 
> 
> - d.
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