[Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

[Hsiang-Tai Chien]

There is no secret sponsorship for Taipei anymore. They are DotAsia.org and
Chung-Hwa Telecom in Taiwan and they did promise the amount as we listed in
the bidding page. And I believe there will be more amounts because now we
have more sponsors willing to help.

We keep it secret before the bidding final because DotAsia.org has bussiness
in many cities, and they do not wish to offend their customers in those
cities so they ask us to keep it secret until the bidding result is out.

And if you wish to know, a employee from DotAsia.org now is in our team to
help for organizing Wikimania 2007.

I wish to remind that we should respect the sponsors because they recognize
the vision of Wikimedia Foundation and they are willing to help us to host
this big WM event.

For the flight price, the fare we listed on the bidding page is the fare we
checked in *this* August. And yes it might have estimation errors because
the fare is changing every day and it should be firmed when the time of
Wikimania 2007 is coming closely. It would be also related with what travel
agency you choose and how you take the flight.

Thanks and best regards,
H.T.

-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gatto Nero
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:06 PM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

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...)

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