[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

Wed Oct 10 17:15:53 UTC 2007

Well I life in Bangkok now so would make it a tad difficult for me ;)/

Waerth

> :D I'm always happy to meet another fellow Amazonian.
>
> Seriously, I don't know about Paramaribo, but Kourou is too expensive, every
> trip to French Guiana by air necessarily landing at Cayenne's airport. We
> may have a space base here, but that doesn't mean the local airstrip is any
> less rinky-dink.
>
> If beautiful Paramaribo is an option, I'd be glad to help plan it. I should
> start learning Dutch. ^^
>
> --Maria
> User:Arria Belli
>
> On 10/10/07, Waerth <waerth at asianet.co.th> wrote:
>   
>> Well let's do it in Paramaribo then! With a daytrip to an Arianne launch
>> ;) As an ex-inhabitant of that city I would certainly like that :)
>>
>> Waerth
>>
>>     
>>> You've got it all wrong. You need to come to Kourou! There are beaches,
>>> tropical rainforests, rivers, lakes, the ocean, and if you get bored you
>>>       
>> can
>>     
>>> always tour the space museum and see the Ariane rockets.
>>>
>>> Hmmm, I wonder if we could plan a Wikimania around an Ariane launch...
>>>
>>> (Also not entirely joking.)
>>>
>>> (Much.)
>>>
>>> --Maria
>>> User:Arria Belli
>>>
>>> On 10/10/07, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I don't like it. I strongly propose to include Taipei also.
>>>> /me tries to pretend not to aware how it burdens Taiwanese
>>>>
>>>> On 10/10/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On 10/10/2007, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> Had a location in western Europe been selected the costs would have
>>>>>>> been much lower for eastern north America, most of europe, and I'm
>>>>>>> guessing less costly for Australia.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Well, yes... except for the part where there were no bids from
>>>>>>             
>> western
>>     
>>>>>> Europe this year that didn't drop out before the final judging :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>> Unless
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>> you're suggesting that the jury should start choosing the location by
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>> fiat,
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>> then it's awfully difficult to choose a community bid that doesn't
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>> exist.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I return to my proposal to just decree we take Frankfurt in odd years
>>>>> and Boston in even ones and leave it at that. Everyone's evenly
>>>>> annoyed ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> [okay, for flexibility, we can maybe rotate the European side among
>>>>> Amsterdam and Paris, and the American one with New York or Toronto,
>>>>> but it's the same broad idea...]
>>>>>
>>>>> [ps: I am not entirely joking]
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> [ps. me either]
>>>>
>>>>         
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>>>>> - Andrew Gray
>>>>>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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