[Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Both Turin and Almere are in Europe. Both should be allowed to enter the
2008 competition. Rio de Janeiro or Johannesburg or Adelaide or Dullsville
should be allowed to enter the 2008 competition. There is NO reason why they
should not be allowed to compete on equal footing.

When there are things about the 2007 competition that were problematic, they
should be part of the learning process that may be happening before the
competition for Wikimania 2008 starts.

Wikimania 2007 will be in Taipei.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 9/29/06, Gatto Nero <gattonero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2006/9/29, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>
> > In Taipei we will have a completely different event from the event in
> > Frankfurt and Boston. Each time we learned new things and the resulting
> > offers for hosting were different as a consequence. Not allowing for
> this by
> > saying in advance that Turin does not have to do "the work" again is
> imho
> > stupid. In order for Turin to be a competitor next year, they have to
> > analyse what went wrong; was it their offer, their presentation sheer
> bad
> > luck?
>
> Turin is not in Asia.
> (Oh, and we didn't talk about "secret sponsorship", right: how came
> that a bid as been even shortlisted with this sort of "Yes, you have
> to trust us: we have a huuuuuge sponsor but we cannot tell you who,
> secret secret!"?
> Not talking about strange flight cost, strange "surplus sponsorship"
> and other funny reason...)
>
> [Beware: this is Gatto Nero's opinion, not "Wikimania2007Torino
> Bidding Team"'s opinion]
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