[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

[effe iets anders]

If you replace frankfurt with Amsterdam, the hague or Utrecht, I'm fine with
it :)

2007/10/10, Andrew Gray <shimgray op gmail.com>:
>
> On 10/10/2007, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki op gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Had a location in western Europe been selected the costs would have
> > > been much lower for eastern north America, most of europe, and I'm
> > > guessing less costly for Australia.
> >
> > Well, yes... except for the part where there were no bids from western
> > Europe this year that didn't drop out before the final judging :) Unless
> > you're suggesting that the jury should start choosing the location by
> fiat,
> > then it's awfully difficult to choose a community bid that doesn't
> exist.
>
> I return to my proposal to just decree we take Frankfurt in odd years
> and Boston in even ones and leave it at that. Everyone's evenly
> annoyed ;-)
>
> [okay, for flexibility, we can maybe rotate the European side among
> Amsterdam and Paris, and the American one with New York or Toronto,
> but it's the same broad idea...]
>
> [ps: I am not entirely joking]
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray op dunelm.org.uk
>
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