<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I am seriously interested in organising a Wikimania in Bangkok.</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The Thai Wiki does not have a functional chapter, but there is a user group chaired by a professor at Thailand’s major Medical College, and we have collaborated on various projects. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">With our combined knowledge we could get a team together fofr 2018 0r 2019 probably 2019 would be best. .</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I have experience in event management. Taweetham has lived and studiedfor his PhD in Australia and has attended several Wikimanias. I have lived in Thailand for nearly 20 years and was a professor at a government university in Bangkok for several years.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Bangkok has an ideal geo location, it’s a very modern city with excellent transport and communications infrastructures. (two large interation airports only 20 mins from the city centre; highly developed urban rapid mass transport systems; first class Internet).</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Food, accommodation, and other facilities for visitors cost roughly one sixth of those in Western (USA, Canada, Australia, Europe,) or Westernised economies (HK, Singapore, etc).</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Chris</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">(Kudpung)<br class=""></span><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">On 17Oct, 2016, at 07:24, Ellie Young <<a href="mailto:eyoung@wikimedia.org" class="">eyoung@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:</span></div><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br clear="all" class=""></span></div><div class=""><p class="gmail-p1"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">This is a follow-up to a posting to this list by the Wikimania Committee in July soliciting proposals for people who might be interested in hosting a future Wikimania (especially 2018 and 2019), as follows:</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;">"</div>We are now looking for proposals of teams and locations. This is not a <div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"> </div>bidding process; we are keen for this to be a light-weight, simple request for suggestions. You don’t need to have a venue locked down, contracts drafted or sponsors lined up. You can have a quick look at the “judging criteria” which were used for 2016,[2] but the key part is commitment. In deciding where to hold conferences, we have to take into account additional factors about potential sites such as cost, <div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"> </div>accessibility, and security. <div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;">"</div></span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><p class="gmail-p2"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I will be following up with various people who have expressed interest in the coming week. If anyone else is interested in discussing the possibilities (the team/prospective host need not be tied to a particular venue), please get in touch with me directly by October 30, 2016. We will be working with the WM</span></p><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;">F </div> in the coming months in finalizing a venue/team for 2018, and we also want to get an early start at identifying potentials for the following year.</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><p class="gmail-p1"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Thank you,</span></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Ellie Young</span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">WMF Events Manager</span></p><p class="gmail-p3"><a href="mailto:eyoung@wikimedia.org" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">eyoung@wikimedia.org</a></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="gmail-p3"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-size: 14px;">[2] <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria" class=""><span class="gmail-s2">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria</span></a></span></p></div><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"> </div>
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