It could be possible that a Wikimedia chapter is chosen to organize a Wikimania, and they can then decide where to go (within their country). Of course, the local chapter is always involved in organizing it, anyway. So instead of a city bid one would have a responsible chapter bid. This of course means that the global community gives a huge amount of trust to that chapter that they look for a place with sufficient infrastructure, public transit/air connection and whatever is necessary... So, the jury would then only choose the chapter (and thus the country), instead of a city.
What is absolutely not possible is just to say "city X will host Wikimania 20xx. Now all go and organize." So there needs to be some system of bids, I think. Th. 2011/11/23 James Forrester <ja...@jdforrester.org>: > 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
