[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimania 2006 - host city contest to open onSeptember 1st 20

Tue Aug 16 13:39:10 UTC 2005

Delphine Ménard notafishz at gmail.com wrote:
> The city contest will go on for a month and a half, and a shortlist of
> three cities will be decided upon on October 15th. From then,
> Shortlisted cities will have to answer the board/organisation
> committee's specific questions within 2 weeks. Official selection for
> the "winning" city will happen on November 1st 2005.

1. Who decided this
2. Why so long
3. The chances of still being able to book a 500 person capacity venue
for August 2006 in Britain in the November before is minimal. I would
be somewhat suprised if was different for anywhere else in the world.

Dan