Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

2011-07-27 Thread Gordon Joly
Looks like work has started... for example in Sydney. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/Bids/Sydney And here is the checklist http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/checklist Gordo On 26/07/2011 16:47, WereSpielChequers wrote: I rather fear that hosting Wikimania is a bit

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

2011-07-27 Thread Thomas Morton
My two cents would be that the big events should not be allowed to drive out the more grassrootsy things. ^^ This. On the other hand - hosting Wikimania might a) raise the profile of Wikimania UK in non-Wikimedia circles (i.e. lead to more grass roots opportunity) and b) be an

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

2011-07-27 Thread WereSpielChequers
Re: Just one question; why 2014? 2013 isn't bid until the end of this year, if I am reading it correctly, so we still have a decent amount of time to put together a bid for that...? No rush of course, just wondering on the reason :) There are a several reasons why I would prefer that we did

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

2011-07-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 27 July 2011 10:57, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: Just one question; why 2014? 2013 isn't bid until the end of this year, if I am reading it correctly, so we still have a decent amount of time to put together a bid for that...? No rush of course, just wondering on the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

2011-07-27 Thread Thomas Morton
It will take at least a year to put together a good bid, especially if we want to line up sponsors in advance of the bidding. (If we put a large budget in the bid with no evidence that we'll be able to fund it, we don't stand a chance. If we try to do a low-budget conference in the UK, we'll

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

2011-07-27 Thread Michael Peel
On 27 Jul 2011, at 13:04, Thomas Morton wrote: It will take at least a year to put together a good bid, especially if we want to line up sponsors in advance of the bidding. (If we put a large budget in the bid with no evidence that we'll be able to fund it, we don't stand a chance. If we try

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

2011-07-27 Thread Thomas Morton
The money would come from the appropriate year's budget, though, not the current one (which covers spending between 1 Feb 2011 and end Jan 2012). Oh, of course, however any spare money from the underspend will carry over to the next budgets - was just suggesting this could be a future outlet

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

2011-07-27 Thread Thomas Morton
Apparently there was a 2010 bid to host it in Oxford as well: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids/Oxford which got shortlisted to the final three. Tom ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

2011-07-27 Thread Gordon Joly
On 27/07/2011 11:38, WereSpielChequers wrote: Another reason is that holding back and not bidding for 2013 would give us time to develop a Wikimania team by getting them involved in helping make 2012 and 2013 successful. Good plan. We can also have a look at previous bids that failed. BTW, I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - Wikimania 2014 The UK team

2011-07-27 Thread WereSpielChequers
If the first step is working out a rough budget. Step zero is establishing whether we have a team of people wanting to make this happen, then logically step minus one is creating a signup page http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_bid for all those enthusiasts to sign up at. So having done step

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania Interviews

2011-07-27 Thread Chris Keating
Apologies for cross-posting, but I think there are probably a fair few people here not subscribed to foundation-l. I'm keen to get as many UK editor stories into the mix for this Autumn's fundraiser as possible,so if you're interested please contact either myself or Megan directly. :-) Chris

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - Wikimania 2014 The UK team

2011-07-27 Thread Lewis Cawte
On 27/07/11 20:37, WereSpielChequers wrote: If the first step is working out a rough budget. Step zero is establishing whether we have a team of people wanting to make this happen, then logically step minus one is creating a signup page http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_bid for all those

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania Interviews

2011-07-27 Thread Deryck Chan
Victor Grigas has already found me on Skype! So, I'm in :) On 28 July 2011 04:05, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Apologies for cross-posting, but I think there are probably a fair few people here not subscribed to foundation-l. I'm keen to get as many UK editor stories into