2011/8/23 Lodewijk <[email protected]> > 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. > If by "all winners", you mean the 180 winners (10 selected pics * 18 participating countries), I agree, of course. But flying in the final winners of the European contest (how many are they supposed to be, by the way ? There is no indication about that in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Concept ) can be realistic.
Basically, what we want to do is a combination of the following : - Held a small award ceremony, giving their prize to the winners. No need to have hundreds of people to come... - An exhibition of the winning photographs - A conference about some topic on which we want the eurodeputies to work and which is relevant to the contest (the first thing that comes to mind is Freedom of Panorama.) - At the same time, a "Wikimedia Takes Brussels" :) IMO, none of these would necesit more time or money than we can afford. > 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) > I think Wikimédia France can pay for what is related to the event itself, and maybe the other European chapters can help with the transportation and accomodation of the winners ? > 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. > Maarten and you have already done much, we don't ask you anything ;) > 4) We got accepted at DISH 2011, and can do the prize announcement in the > presentation there. > What is it ? I've never heard of that... Regards, Sylvain. -- Sylvain Boissel Chargé de mission communauté et technologie de Wikimédia France www.wikimedia.fr 06.18.90.71.04 - [email protected]
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