Hi Sylvain, all, although it sounds exciting, I'm afraid we have to be realistic. 1) it is rather impossible to fly in all winners - even if we have the budget for that (which we don't) - because of the tight time frame. If we fly nobody in, it would basically be a press conference, and no press will be really interested in that I assume. 2) currently, we have no budget for a ceremony - so you would have to find that (there was money budgetted, but since we were not able to fill in all budget with money from chapters, we have to limit ourselves) 3) at least Maarten and I have no time to organize such a meeting - it requires quite a lot of work because you need to get an interesting program to attract people in the first place. 4) We got accepted at DISH 2011, and can do the prize announcement in the presentation there.
In other words: although it sounds like an exciting opportunity, it requires a lot of work and budget - both recourses being thin spread. If someone else is able to find the budget and capacity to organize it, we can of course consider it though - but in that case I'd like to know first a bit more what such a ceremony would look like. best, lodewijk 2011/8/23 Sylvain Boissel <[email protected]> > Hello all, > > As Benoît already told on this list some time ago (if I remember well), > people from Wikimédia France went to the European Parliament in Brussels by > the end of June. There, we discussed a certain number of things, including > the possibility of hosting a European WLM Awards Ceremony in the Espace > Léopold/Leopoldruimte(1) (in December according to the timeline (2)) > > We are now in late August, so the parliamentary vacations will end soon and > it's time to contact them again... But before doing that, I need to know if > people from the other European countries are as excited as we are at > Wikimédia France by this opportunity. > > What do you think about it ? > > > Regards, > -- > Sylvain Boissel > Wikimédia France - Tech and community manager > www.wikimedia.fr > 06.18.90.71.04 - [email protected] > > (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espace_L%C3%A9opold > (2) > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Timeline > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu >
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