[CREATE] Decision for LGM 2011 venue — We’re missing the point

[Louis Desjardins]

Dear all,

In all respect to the posters who gave their opinion, as I review the posts
so far, I have so say I think we can do better than this discussion now.

It looks as though we have no guidelines, no mean to help the discussion go
beyond single preferences or opinions.

While it is certainly interesting to know what everyone think about the
benefits of going to either of the proposed venues, we have to find out
about very basic and specific questions about those venues. I am sorry to
put it so bluntly but we are not getting close to this at present time.

Only to make things clear, and since I have been working as closely as I
could with Hong Phuc on Day 0 — we have spent a couple of hours together and
although it was quick I can tell you it was intense and we have reviewed the
major aspects of the organisation while we were still in Brussels — so she
could put together a strong bid, I find the Vietnam bid very interesting and
worth to be fully analysed in the light of the proposed guidelines. Hong
Phuc is enthusiastic and is out of doubt a solid organiser. If, at the end
of the process we decide to go to Vietnam, I will be more than happy and I
will work as hard as I can to help and assist remotely as I do it since LGM
2.

I have to say also that I completely trust the Brasil bid to be as strong,
once they will have put together their plans, even if I didn’t have the
chance to talk to them so far.

I don’t expect anybody to be sorry if in the end if we don’t go to Montreal.
I have put the Montreal bid on the table because I think we need it. Trust
me, I also like to be on the participant’s seat. I could have said from the
start Montreal is not in for 2011. And we could end up like in 2009 asking
ourselves where to go after both Singapore and Amsterdam proposals failed.
So I put Montreal as an official bid for 2011 and you can even consider it a
permanent bid as well ! But we have to know ahead of time. Not at the last
minute. Can we make the Montreal bid better according to the guidelines,
certainly. Provided we have time to do it, yes. People have to realise that
2009 was all done in a hurry. The C-Plan becoming the A-Plan in the most
confusing way. This is certainly one thing LGM doesn’t need and we want to
avoid that to happen again. This is why we have put the guidelines together
and we want to make sure that we can answer those points BEFORE making a
binding decision. This is also why I strongly believe in a 2-year process.

That said, and no matter how great the bids are and how strong is the
commitment from the local teams and how much we’d all love to travel to any
end of the world, we still need to gather the information and this is the
only thing we are asking now.

We have put together the guidelines in order to help make a decision based
on facts and based on past years’ experience. These guidelines were
established in the most possible neutral manner. The guidelines are there to
help us make the best possible decision on a venue and they are there at the
same time to help any team who wishes to organise LGM anywhere in the world
make a strong bid. We could make them more efficient down the road. But in
our view they are on target.

Can we have answer the questions raised in those guidelines?

Louis
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