[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations

Wed Nov 23 20:47:45 UTC 2011

It could be possible that a Wikimedia chapter is chosen to organize a
Wikimania, and they can then decide where to go (within their
country). Of course, the local chapter is always involved in
organizing it, anyway. So instead of a city bid one would have a
responsible chapter bid. This of course means that the global
community gives a huge amount of trust to that chapter that they look
for a place with sufficient infrastructure, public transit/air
connection and whatever is necessary... So, the jury would then only
choose the chapter (and thus the country), instead of a city.

What is absolutely not possible is just to say "city X will host
Wikimania 20xx. Now all go and organize." So there needs to be some
system of bids, I think.

Th.

2011/11/23 James Forrester <james at jdforrester.org>:
> On 23 November 2011 19:31, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janbart at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> On 23 nov. 2011, at 20:17, James Forrester wrote:
>>> On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janbart at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>> In the past years I have seen a lot of people spend a lot of time on different bids which never
>>>> made it (even though they were pretty good). Could this be the year that we change this
>>>> procedure and try to do things differently? I would love to explore how we can avoid a lot of
>>>> people wasting their energy...
>>>>
>>>> How about taking a little time to look at these and other imperfects of the current system
>>>> before jumping right in, and trying to see if we can improve it?
>>>
>>> Happy to pause things, but there's limited time (even if we just
>>> awarded it today, 19 months isn't a huge amount of time to organise an
>>> event which is quite a significant amount of work). Previously there
>>> have been calls for the Board to establish a "Committee" of some sort
>>> to oversee Wikimanias and try to come to some agreement about how to
>>> improve the system - but I worry that if we start discussions about
>>> how we're going to decide to decide we'll never get anywhere. :-)
>>
>> true,
>>
>> And if I am the only one having these concerns then no worries, but taking a
>> couple of days to share concerns might be a good idea :)
>
> Sure. I'm totally not going to try to rail-road this discussion (or
> maybe it should be on-wiki?) by announcing a Jury when we're not sure
> how we'll proceed. :-)
>
> J.
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