Am 25.08.2012 21:46, schrieb Lodewijk: > Maybe the question should first be: what kind of Wikimania do we want. > Personally, I would be totally happy with down scaling the conference a > bit. Less visitors (500-600), less events and less professional. Let it be > more volunteer focused, and yes, perhaps also a bit more chaotic. That also > means we can change the nature of bids: more back to basic and more focus > on location, venue and accomodation. If we can bring the budget down, we > also need to focus less on sponsorships etc, which should make the bidding > easier and more open to more groups of dedicated volunteers.
this is exactly the point I wanted to make. Wikimania is not a place to professionalise. Well, a bit, but not too overly. The unique thing at Wikimania is the atmosphere. And sorry to say so but I don't see non-Wikimedians (or "not Wikimedians per se") making a great Wikimania. That just doesn't work. That does not mean you are not allowed to hire a production company to make your life easier but it means that the core team and the project manager are true full-hearted Wikimedians. There are plenty of them out there. We don't need six bids for Wikimania each year. We don't need chapters bidding for Wikimania because having done a Wikimania puts them in a certain level. As was said before, Wikimania is not the Olympic Games or the Soccer World Championship. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
