[Wikimedia-l] Who will host Wikimedia Conference 2014? Bidding process is open!

[Cristian Consonni]

2013/9/18 Balázs Viczián <balazs.viczian at wikimedia.hu>:
> The thing is that you should start building from the bottom, not from the
> top. A venue can be secured as late as 3 months before the event to give
> everyone enough time to plan and get cheap tickets (and I mean first
> minute, not last minute). Most airline and international train tickets are
> the cheapest if you buy them ~3 months in advance. Not much later, nor
> earlier, because both are being "penalized" by higher fees. We can find out
> where to have the event as late as early January

May I point out that if you want to be able to book tickets 3 months
before <event:date> you should start working on <event> at the very
least six month in advance. How can you tell the destination of your
booking if you don't know where the event is going to be held?

>From WM-IT's experience with WMConf 2013 (which we are discussing to
replicate) you have to start organizing it in November, no later.

Cristian