On 23 November 2011 19:31, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janb...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 23 nov. 2011, at 20:17, James Forrester wrote: >> On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janb...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> In the past years I have seen a lot of people spend a lot of time on >>> different bids which never >>> made it (even though they were pretty good). Could this be the year that we >>> change this >>> procedure and try to do things differently? I would love to explore how we >>> can avoid a lot of >>> people wasting their energy... >>> >>> How about taking a little time to look at these and other imperfects of the >>> current system >>> before jumping right in, and trying to see if we can improve it? >> >> Happy to pause things, but there's limited time (even if we just >> awarded it today, 19 months isn't a huge amount of time to organise an >> event which is quite a significant amount of work). Previously there >> have been calls for the Board to establish a "Committee" of some sort >> to oversee Wikimanias and try to come to some agreement about how to >> improve the system - but I worry that if we start discussions about >> how we're going to decide to decide we'll never get anywhere. :-) > > true, > > And if I am the only one having these concerns then no worries, but taking a > couple of days to share concerns might be a good idea :)
Sure. I'm totally not going to try to rail-road this discussion (or maybe it should be on-wiki?) by announcing a Jury when we're not sure how we'll proceed. :-) J. -- James D. Forrester jdforres...@wikimedia.org | jdforres...@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
