[Foundation-l] [Wikimania 2009] Important notice!

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 17:54:34 UTC 2007


On 29/09/2007, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> I certainly endorse the idea of making earlier selections of the
> Wikimania sites to allow longer-term advance planning. On the other
> hand, it may not make a lot of sense for people to start putting much
> time into planning 2009 bids until the winner for 2008 is selected.
> E.g., if Atlanta is selected for 2008, then probably no U.S. city
> should bother putting in a bid for 2009, and so no one is going to
> start planning (hypothetical example) New York 2009 until the 2008
> location is announced, and so on. Does the schedule take this into
> account?

As long as "the conclusion of the Wikimania 2008 bid process" means
after the selection, which I expect it does, then it should be fine.




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