Marc A. Pelletier wrote: >I, for one, am immensely grateful that you and your team (and Manilla's >just as much) chose to start such a hard endeavor for the community's >benefit! I really wish that communications and timing had been better >so that neither of your teams ended up wasting any effort too early (no >doubt you'll be contacted for future years as both locations are >desirable and your willingness to host is now known). > >I know that the steering committee contacted our team (tentatively, very >early in the year) in part because they were aware that we were already >fully set to host Wikimania in 2017 with the groundwork for our hosting >having started in 2010, and most of our preparations still usable (and, >I expect, an opportunity to hold the first Wikimania in a Francophone >location played a part). It's clear to me the steering committee >dropped a ball in not noticing that both of your teams had started >working on bids in time to communicate with you. > >That said, this kind of wasted effort is - from what I understand - the >very reason why the process needed changing. Even if three teams bid >for 2017, two of them would necessarily have wasted the tremendous work >that goes into preparing a bid - including the credibility cost of long >talks with venue and sponsors that turn out to a miss and the morale hit >of loosing in a bidding process. I suppose I'm a bit "glad" that the >leak occured before our team was ready to make the official announcement >because - if nothing else - this will prevent that waste to have been >even worse.
This reads a bit strangely to me. You seem to suggest that bids can be worked on for many years: in this case, saying that planning for Montreal started in 2010 for an eventual 2017 bid. However, you continue on to write that it's wasted effort if a bid fails in a particular year. Wouldn't failed bids be re-usable in subsequent years? My guess is that sponsors and venues are capable of understanding a bidding process, so long as it's appropriately communicated to them. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
