[Foundation-l] A question for the Wikimania jury

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 03:00:36 UTC 2008


It was not a troll, and I very much do believe that it could have been  
implied in the statement. As well, the question was not actually  
directed at you, even though (I think) you are on the jury.

-Dan
On Mar 30, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Austin Hair wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Dan Rosenthal  
> <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That carries with it the implied statement that strong bids from such
>> places would have been unwelcome from the very start for 2009's
>> Wikimania, which is troubling. If that's not the case, please let me
>> know. I'm certainly not saying that BA had a weak bid; from what I've
>> seen of it, I don't think it was too bad. Were the jury to have
>> addressed the concerns regarding the high relative weight that
>> location has compared to it's actual level of importance when  
>> compared
>> to other factors, and still chosen BA on its merits, I'd be OK with
>> that; I just feel that those concerns were not addressed.
>
> That certainly wasn't implied, and I'm sure you know it.  Don't troll.
>
> Austin
>
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