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

[Craig Franklin]

I don't know if I have any special moral authority on this, but I think we'd 
be better off concentrating on other things until 2011 at least, given these 
recent revelations.

Cheers,
Craig F.




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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia-au" <wikimediaau-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:32 PM
Subject: [personal] Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimania 2010 bid idea: joint-bid 
with iSummit?


> Thanks for your level head, Liam. :)
>
> I think at this point, I would need some convincing that it would be
> worth our time making a serious bid for 2010. Does anyone feel like
> doing that convincing, or do we all more or less agree our efforts
> would be better spent concentrating on more local happenings?
>
> 2008/8/24 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com>:
>> And so, if we put our heads together and get a chapter going smoothly 
>> with a
>> couple of events on the board - AGM; media briefing; wiki academy; 
>> Wikipedia
>> takes Melbourne; wiki wednesday; etc (especially if we can bring some
>> board/staff out here for one of those events) - and lock-in some sponsors
>> then we would have a genuinely compelling bid. But we must work UP to a
>> wikimania bid not start from there. Keep our eyes on the prize but come 
>> at
>> it incrementally...
>
> Good advice too. :)
>
> cheers
> Brianna
>
>
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