[Foundation-l] Bangkok bid

Sat Dec 17 05:47:12 UTC 2005

Walter van Kalken wrote:

> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> Walter van Kalken wrote:
>>
>>> SJ wrote:
>>>
>>>> And I suppose Wikimania 2011 will end up being at McMurdo Station.  It
>>>> will take some working up to.  [Then 2012 : in orbit?  There was
>>>> something about a sub-orbital bid.  And depending on what the next
>>>> World Age brings -- Revelation...  Apokemon... Xists -- 2013 may be
>>>> something completely different.]
>>>>
>>>> -- sj
>>>
>>> What on earth did I deserve such an answer for. 
>>
>> Shouldn't you mean "What NOT on earth ..." :-)
>>
>> Ec
>
> No in response to a suggestion by you to make Africa the predestined 
> continent I already put up a bid for bangkok. I treated you with 
> respect I like to be treated back with respect it could be my lack of 
> sleep but I am pretty pissed at SJ's answer especially in the light of 
> him being at the current wikimania organising committee I find him 
> ridiculing someone else's idea totally inappropriate and uncalled for. 

In making a reference to Africa, I was certainly not aware that you had 
already put in a bid for Bangkok.  But even if I had known it would not 
have prevented me from saying that in this very preliminary stage.  Even 
when I first raised such a possibility in Frankfort I had already 
conceived of the possibility of an East Asian or Australian bid for 
2007.  Bangkok did not come to mind, but I have no objection to going 
there in 2007.

I took SJ's comments in jest, and responded accordingly.  No disrespect 
was intended.

Ec