On 25/09/06, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia(a)alisonwheeler.com> wrote:
Hello all,
Well, first, the result of the competition to hold Wikimania 2007 is in.
London's candidacy - which we've been working hard on for the last few
weeks - had a lot of support but was, in the end, unsuccessful, and Taipei
in Taiwan was chosen as the host city for next year.
(...)
Finally, although London did not win the bid to host
Wikimania (you can
read the full bid at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2007/London
) it was very useful research and has showed us that there are quite a few
organisations who would be interesting in working with us to raise the
profile of the Wikimedia projects and attracting new editors, especially
from the non-English language citizens we have.
I note the announcement for WM07 said that WM08 would be bid for and
decided on this winter (presumably so we can get 18, not 10, months
lead-time for these events in future); are people planning to
roll-over the London 2007 bid for the 2008 contest?
--
- Andrew Gray
(who is very surprised Torino didn't get chosen)
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk