[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations

[Jan-Bart de Vreede]

true,

And if I am the only one having these concerns then no worries, but taking a couple of days to share concerns might be a good idea :)

Jan-Bart



On 23 nov. 2011, at 20:17, James Forrester wrote:

> On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janbart at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> In the past years I have seen a lot of people spend a lot of time on different bids which never
>> made it (even though they were pretty good). Could this be the year that we change this
>> procedure and try to do things differently? I would love to explore how we can avoid a lot of
>> people wasting their energy...
>> 
>> How about taking a little time to look at these and other imperfects of the current system
>> before jumping right in, and trying to see if we can improve it?
> 
> Happy to pause things, but there's limited time (even if we just
> awarded it today, 19 months isn't a huge amount of time to organise an
> event which is quite a significant amount of work). Previously there
> have been calls for the Board to establish a "Committee" of some sort
> to oversee Wikimanias and try to come to some agreement about how to
> improve the system - but I worry that if we start discussions about
> how we're going to decide to decide we'll never get anywhere. :-)
> 
> J.
> -- 
> James D. Forrester
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