2015-10-04 22:42 GMT+02:00 Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]>: > Of course it is the committee to have its say about Wikimania. > > If I understand it well, the main problem was that the bid period was > from August to November 2015, and some groups were working on their > bids. They feel that they could have saved a lot of work if they had > known before. >
Yes, I agree, Ziko. And I do not take it lightly. As I said, communications was really, really bad here. So WMF would be well advised o invite everyone who worked on a bid to Montreal 2017, all costs covered. And maybe Lila would be well advised to call the good folks who prepared a bid as well. BUT: That is not the main point. The main point is that Wikimedia now has replaced a broken process. And we should celebrate that. (And if it turns out that the new process does not work, than it will be changed again. Hopefully not by consensus, but by a small group of people who just say: Enough is enough). Pavel > Kind regards > Ziko > > > > 2015-10-04 22:38 GMT+02:00 Fæ <[email protected]>: > > The ends should be used as the justification of the means. > > > > Never. > > > > Fae > > On 4 Oct 2015 21:31, "Pavel Richter" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 2015-10-04 21:55 GMT+02:00 Theo10011 <[email protected]>: > >> > >> > > >> > Those are some pretty broad leaps Pavel. They were never tasked to > take > >> > that decision. They came to a conclusion that the process is broken, > they > >> > thought to do away with the process, they picked a winner, and set > about > >> > corresponding with them, without telling anyone. Then, developed an > >> entire > >> > roadmap of where they want to see Wikimania next for the near > foreseeable > >> > future. All of this was never tasked to them in the first place. > >> > > >> > This committee isn't "community approved", their mandate isn't > community > >> > approved. Its members weren't elected, in fact, I don't know why and > how > >> > these people got on this committee, or how long they will be > in-charge - > >> > because someone certainly seems to think they are in-charge. Maybe I > >> missed > >> > a call or notification asking to join or approve or comment as to who > >> > should be on this committee. > >> > > >> > Regards > >> > Theo > >> > > >> > >> Theo, you argue process, I argue outcome. > >> They faced a problem, they tackled it, they made a decission. And their > >> mandate? They *showed up and volunteered*. That is enough mandate in my > >> book. > >> > >> The revolution will not be community-approved. > >> > >> Pavel > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> > [email protected] > >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > , > >> > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards, > >> > >> Pavel Richter > >> Mobile: +49-151-19645755 > >> Mail: [email protected] > >> Twitter: @pavel <https://twitter.com/pavel> > >> Blog: blog.pavelrichter.de > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards, Pavel Richter Mobile: +49-151-19645755 Mail: [email protected] Twitter: @pavel <https://twitter.com/pavel> Blog: blog.pavelrichter.de _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
