On 11/23/11 11:17 AM, James Forrester wrote:
> On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede<
janbart@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> In the past years I have seen a lot of people spend a lot of time on different bids which never
>> made it (even though they were pretty good). Could this be the year that we change this
>> procedure and try to do things differently? I would love to explore how we can avoid a lot of
>> people wasting their energy...
>>
>> How about taking a little time to look at these and other imperfects of the current system
>> before jumping right in, and trying to see if we can improve it?
> Happy to pause things, but there's limited time (even if we just
> awarded it today, 19 months isn't a huge amount of time to organise an
> event which is quite a significant amount of work). Previously there
> have been calls for the Board to establish a "Committee" of some sort
> to oversee Wikimanias and try to come to some agreement about how to
> improve the system - but I worry that if we start discussions about
> how we're going to decide to decide we'll never get anywhere. :-)
>