[Foundation-l] Bangkok bid

Sat Dec 17 05:19:18 UTC 2005

SJ wrote:

>On 12/16/05, Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net> wrote:
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>>What on earth did I deserve such an answer for.
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>Hm?   Just thinking ahead to what happens when you run out of
>continents... no ridicule here.  A Thai bid would be exciting.  There
>really was already discussion of having Wikimania in sub-orbit.
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My reaction to your comments were to view them as raucus humour, not 
ridicule.  They did have a tone reminiscent of Howard Dean, who also got 
taken the wrong way.

>>No in response to a suggestion by you to make Africa the predestined
>>continent I already put up a bid for bangkok.
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>I think you're taking Ec the wrong way... it sounded to me as though
>he wanted to encourage a serious Africa bid, though maybe not in a
>position to make one himself.
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That's pretty well what I had in mind.  My rationale was based on the 
concept that if we are ever going to have a presence in the developing 
world it would be a good idea to have a Wikimania there to give 
Wikipedians a dramatic grasp of what the problems are.  In any case, 
there can be no valid African bid without Africans being involved in a 
significant way.

>But Ec wrote:
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>>Could we book early for someone like Eric Idle or John Cleese to be a
>>guest speaker? :-)
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>If we have /really/ out of this world contacts by then, maybe we could
>book Douglas Adams...
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Now that you put it that way maybe my invitation list for "something 
completely different" should have included Graham Chapman.

Always look on the bright side of life.

Ec