[Wikimediaau-l] Wikimania 2010 bid idea: joint-bid with iSummit?

[Craig Franklin]

I still stand by the idea of Brisbane being the best place to host, and if 
we can piggyback another conference or gathering onto the back of it, that 
can only enhance our prospects.  Not to mention the fact that we could pool 
our resources and get good economy by sharing locations, etc.

I think that UQ would be interested in collaborating on another bid, and if 
we can get QUT on board as well, that would be two of the three big 
Queensland universities.  I really think that this would be a golden 
opportunity for us.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia-au" <wikimediaau-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:10 PM
Subject: [personal] [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimania 2010 bid idea: joint-bid with 
iSummit?


> Hi all,
>
> So a couple of weeks ago I had a cool idea...what if we made our
> Wikimania10 bid a joint-bid for both Wikimania and iSummit?
> <http://icommonssummit.org/> (iSummit crowd is kind of creative
> commonsy, arty, education-y)
>
> There is a decent amount of overlap of interests, although not
> content, between Wikimania and iSummit. iSummit also has about 500
> attendees. By co-hosting both, it could be enough to convince the
> northern hemispherans that it is worth travelling so far to attend. I
> reckon maybe up to 150 or so attendees would be interested in
> attending both. It would also probably give us good advantages in
> seeking sponsorship and some extra leverage with the venue, hopefully.
>
> I floated the idea with Jessica Coates, who works for Creative Commons
> Australia (based in Brisbane), and she said they like the idea. CCau
> is attached to QUT, so they have a little bit of nice institutional
> support that we don't have...
>
> My thinking is they would be one after the other, with a day or two
> break (weekend) in between. I would also like to see Wikimania have a
> couple of extra free/closetofree days - one being a kind of "Open
> Day/Wikipedia Academy", open to the public with lots of "How to edit
> Wikipedia" style tutorials/workshops - that would be good and easy to
> share with iCommons - and another being an unconference/discussion
> day. That could also be shared with iSummit.
>
> I think if we did this the potential host cities that would make the
> most sense would be Melbourne or Brisbane. There are advantages and
> disadvantages to both.
>
> Naturally there would be lots of details to be worked out, but what
> does everyone think about the general idea of working up a joint bid
> proposal with Creative Commons Australia?
>
> cheers
> Brianna
>
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