How far ahead do we have to talk to convention venues to get space in this area? I would think they need a loooong lead time.
Ariel Στις 27-01-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 14:59 -0800, ο/η phoebe ayers έγραψε: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:50 PM, George Herbert > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would think that properly planning a proposal for something like > > this would take a lot more than 2 weeks - I've done conference and > > convention organization work before, and even the rough plan for a > > proposal took more than 2 weeks, including finding and getting > > preliminary agreements with venues etc. > > Agreed! To clarify: Feb 8 is just the deadline to put down the city > name as a possibility. You then have until March 29 to work up the > full bid (with team and venue information, etc). Two *months* is still > a tight timeline for the amount of information required, though. > > > The 2012 proposal would be more reasonable, on the basis of having a > > year to get a team and proposal ready to go. > > > > However, if someone here wants to go gung-ho for 2011 as a practice > > run or if you think you could actually pull a credible proposal > > together that fast, more power to you. It would be a good excuse for > > some gettogethers at least... > > Indeed :) > > I have worked on planning Wikimania for several years now -- so if > anyone has questions about this feel free to ask me directly. Note, > I'm not personally committing :) -- but I thought I'd find out if > there was any community interest (or pent-up desire!) to host > wikimania. > > -- phoebe > > > > -george > > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:14 AM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I was asked if the SF-area Wikimedia group had any interest in putting > >> in a bid for Wikimania 2011: > >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011 > >> > >> The deadline to do so is February 8 -- two weeks away (just to list > >> the bidding city's name; the deadline for full bid info is March 29). > >> > >> If that's too hard, there's an unofficial page for 2012 already as > >> well: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012 > >> > >> If you don't know what Wikimania is, see > >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania or > >> http://en.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania. > >> > >> What do y'all think? > >> -- phoebe > >> > >> > >> > >> - http://phoebeayers.info | [email protected] > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-SF mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
