I'd just like to be the bad guy and repeat my
suggestion expressed in the
past in this list and on wikimania-planning-l that in the future Wikimania
be held every two years. The no-Wikimania years could possibly be devoted to
regional conferences, smaller in scope and cheaper to produce.
Producing a very good bid for a constantly-expanding and improving
conference, every time in another place, is a task we won't be able to
support over time.
Harel Cain
Wikimedia Israel
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 21:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janbart(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi All,
Disclaimer: this is my personal opinion, and in no way represents any
sentiments of the board.
That being said
In the past years I have seen a lot of people spend a lot of time on
different bids which never made it (even though they were pretty good).
Could this be the year that we change this procedure and try to do things
differently? I would love to explore how we can avoid a lot of people
wasting their energy...
How about taking a little time to look at these and other imperfects of
the current system before jumping right in, and trying to see if we can
improve it?
Jan-Bart
On 23 nov. 2011, at 19:47, James Forrester wrote:
Dear all,
It's getting towards the end of November, which means it is time to
run the Wikimania bidding process for 2013[0].
Given the traditional absence of a formal system, I'm putting myself
forward as Jury[1] co-ordinator - a non-voting person who helps the
Jury form and Bids get started up, sets the timeline[2], and hopefully
makes sure everything happens smoothly.
In this role, I would like to make two requests:
Firstly, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia community would love to see as
many good bids as possible. There are already a few bids[3] on Meta,
but if you or your local community are thinking about putting one in,
I'd urge you to get started now - there's not much time left before
new bids will not be accepted. Making a good bid for Wikimania can be
a lot of work, but we all benefit from there being a strong field of
bids.
Secondly, I would like to invite volunteers to serve on the Wikimania
2013 jury. There is a list of general requirements on Meta[4], but to
summarise:
* The Jury will have some from the Wikimedia Foundation's Board and
staff alongside the community volunteers;
* You can't be on the Jury if you're closely involved in a Bid (it's a
conflict of interest);
* You need to have some free time during the selection period
(January-March);
* We want to represent the community across the different projects and
activities; and
* We of course want a mix of people from a diverse range of
backgrounds, sexes, cultures and regions of the world.
If you wish to be involved in the Jury, please e-mail me (off-list) at
jdforrester(a)gmail.com - I hope we can announce the Jury in the first
week of December, so please contact me as soon as you can.
Please also consider passing this message on (and translating it!) for
your wiki's community forum for those that don't read these mailing
lists.
Thank you, and good luck to all Bids.
[0] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
[1] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Jury
[2] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Bids/Timeline
[3] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Bids
[4] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_jury
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
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