Unfortunately, that's true... What about "just" an exhibition, then? There could be a vernissage as an event and maybe one or two jurors and one or two winners from nearby could attend?
Kilian On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Lodewijk <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu >
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