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 :)
Jan-Bart On 23 nov. 2011, at 20:17, James Forrester wrote: > On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janb...@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. :-) > > J. > -- > James D. Forrester > jdforres...@wikimedia.org | jdforres...@gmail.com > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l