[Foundation-l] A question for the Wikimania jury

[Majorly]

On 31/03/2008, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jason Safoutin
>
>
> Please note that members of the jury read Foundation-l and
> Wikimania-l, so any criticisms, compliments or suggestions made here
> does indeed reach them. Therefore, you should probably address
> yourself directly to the moderators and jury members if you think we
> are doing a bad job. In addition, I will be glad to forward any
> private messages to the jury email list. Constructive suggestions are
> probably the most helpful, along with a more detailed explanation of
> any criticisms.
>
> In that vein, these are the basic questions that I am personally most
> interested in hearing constructive, creative, and thoughtful answers
> to:
>
> * Is the bidding system the best way to identify possible Wikimania
> locations? if not, what other system could be used to ensure an
> enthusiastic and capable organizing team every year?
> * If the bidding system is the best way, then how would you choose
> from amongst bids in a timely manner that would ensure fairness,
> consistency and community representation, while also providing
> in-depth knowledge of the conference and representing the interests of
> the Foundation? If the answer is a small-group jury, then how would
> you pick the members of that jury?
> * Is something wrong with the conference, or the conference location?
> * If the conference location, then how would you define a better
> location? How would you pick a location that does not unfairly
> penalize any group of Wikimedia editors and community members? How
> would you pick a location that is accessible to as many community
> members as possible? What evidence would you base this decision on?
> * How would you change the bidding criteria to ensure this better
> location? Would you change the bidding criteria in other ways?
> * How would you deal with the different criticisms of locations that
> have been raised on this list -- considering that different criticisms
> have been raised regarding all four conference locations (on four
> continents) to date, and all of them have validity?
> * How would you best support the passionate and dedicated community
> members who have volunteered to make the huge personal sacrifice of
> organizing the conference?
> * Would you be willing and capable of organizing the conference (which
> past experience says is a commitment of 10-30 hours a week for a year,
> plus the responsibility of providing an excellent experience for the
> community with very little reward and the responsibility of coming up
> with your own funding, and motivating 10-20 volunteers to donate an
> equivalent amount of time)? If not, how do you suggest we find people
> who are?
>
>
> -- Phoebe
>
>
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I don't have any issues with the members of the jury, but others might, and
there's currently no real way to bring up problems.

-- 
Alex (Majorly)

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