[Wikimania-l] Update on 2010 timetable?

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/4/21 Joseph Seddon <josephseddon at googlemail.com>:
>>
>> I'm against as well, I don't think it's practical. If the bids were
>> made by chapters, rather than "local teams" (which are really just
>> informal groups of people that aren't particularly well defined), then
>> it might be possible, but that isn't the case. Perhaps in the future
>> we'll be able to make it a requirement that bids are made by chapters,
>> and then we could consider things like this, but I'm not sure chapters
>> are widespread enough for that yet. Give it a couple of years.
>
> This year we have three bids, three countries and three chapters. There is
> no time like the present to try it out.

Yes, but the bids aren't actually made by the chapters. As you well
know, the leader of the UK bid isn't even a member of the UK chapter
(yet)!