I suggest the European Parliament in Strasbourgh (France) for 2019. 2015-10-04 20:42 GMT+02:00 Mounir Touzri <[email protected]>:
> Dear all; > I suggest North Africa for 2018 (Tunisia as an example) > > 2015-10-04 19:10 GMT+01:00 James Forrester <[email protected]>: > >> All, >> >> TL;DR: The Wikimania Committee and the WMF Community Engagement >> department will be working on coming up with a new process for venues for >> future Wikimanias, which we will be seeking input from the community in the >> next few months >> >> ------ >> >> At the Committee’s meeting in Mexico City in August, we agreed to alter >> the way that Wikimania locations are decided. >> >> The existing bidding process has developed over time. It has become >> unwieldy and hard work for the community and staff. It demands that people >> pour a huge amount of effort into building local teams, contracts and >> institutional relationships only for rejected bids' work to be left unused. >> A lot of pressure is put on volunteers to try to work on logistics rather >> than dream about what would make a great programme for our communities. >> Each year, the jury has to decide on a venue based on what is presented by >> each group divisively, rather than what we as a community could come >> together and build. >> >> The process is too short-term, setting out venue much less than two years >> ahead (often only just more than twelve months in advance). This greatly >> increases expenses when other similar conferences plan locations out many >> years ahead. This makes it impossible for us to be strategic about >> location, prevents us from arranging co-location with like-minded >> conferences, and it means that some areas of the world are ignored when >> they could provide great Wikimanias. >> >> Consequently, from now on the Committee will pick an area for Wikimania >> four to five years in advance, from the following (provisional) list. The >> years in which we have already held Wikimanias in these areas are shown in >> parentheses >> >> * Western, Northern, and Southern Europe (2005, 2014) >> >> * Canada and United States (2006, 2012) >> >> * Asia-Pacific (2007, 2013) >> >> * Middle East and North Africa (2008, 2011) >> >> * Latin America (2009, 2015) >> >> * Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia (2010) >> >> * South Asia (none yet) >> >> * Sub-Saharan Africa (none yet) >> >> * Oceania (none yet) >> >> The Committee intends to deliberately rotate between these areas to make >> sure we allow as many community members to attend as cheaply as possible. >> >> The large majority of our community members are based in either North >> America or Europe; organising Wikimanias in these areas allows the majority >> of our community members to attend cheaply, so that money spent on >> scholarships can go further, and be more focussed in supporting our >> community members wherever they are based. >> >> Locating Wikimania in other continents does not assure that participants >> from these areas can attend more cheaply. Nevertheless, to support the >> movement worldwide, we do want to ensure that, every third year, Wikimania >> will take place neither in Europe nor North America. >> >> We propose that a sequence of "Western, Northern, and Southern Europe", >> "Canada and United States", and one of the others every three years, picked >> out several years into the future. Beyond the first two areas, we may not >> visit some as often as others. (I have not listed Antarctica as an area to >> which we will rotate, which may well be a disappointment to members of the >> British Antarctic Survey and others in that location.) >> >> More widely, we would like to encourage Wikimedia conferences as open, >> engaging and fun community meetups, alongside the annual Wikimania >> conference. I know that several chapters run country-specific conferences >> each year, which is a good move. I think that there should be at least one >> annual Wikimedia conference in each of these areas. This would help newer >> editors know that there are people like them nearby without requiring the >> existence of, or putting too great a demand on, every national chapter or >> other local affiliated body. In some areas like Africa where the distances >> are great, multiple regional conferences may make sense. >> >> As part of the new system of location selection, we will no longer have a >> 'bidding' process. Instead, the Committee invites people interested in >> leading or helping to run a Wikimania to contact us on-wiki >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania>, or via the wikimania-l >> list. If you think that you know a great team, venue or concept for holding >> Wikimania, in your area or anywhere else, please discuss the possibilities >> with us. We will work with interested community members to narrow down the >> selection to a particular venue. >> >> Our next few locations will thus go like this: >> >> * 2016: Western, Northern, and Southern Europe – Esino Lario in Italy >> >> * 2017: Canada and United States – TBD >> >> * 2018: TBD – TBD >> >> * 2019: Western, Northern, and Southern Europe – TBD >> >> * 2020: Canada and United States – TBD >> >> * 2021: TBD – TBD >> >> As you can see, as well as picking the 2017 venue in Canada or the United >> States, for which we have a candidate lined up, we need to select very >> quickly the area for 2018, and after that, 2019 and beyond. There are >> several areas we’ve outlined above that have never had a Wikimania, and >> others where we have not visited for some time. We would love your thoughts >> on the areas on which we should focus for 2018 and beyond. We’ll also be >> asking in future for your thoughts about how to structure the programme of >> each Wikimania to make it as good as it can be for you, for others, and for >> our community overall. >> >> Thank you. >> >> Yours, >> >> -- >> >> James D. Forrester >> >> Chair, Wikimania Committee >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- ------ Ralf Roletschek https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ralf_Roletschek Fragen zum Fahrrad? - http://www.fahrradmonteur.de Hinweis wegen immer mehr aufkommendem Werbemüll: Alle Mails, die die Wörter "Faceb00k" oder "Twi††er" enthalten, landen bei mir ungelesen im Spam.
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