Dear Wikimaniacs & Non-Wikimaniacs
This is your local team lead for this years conference in Hong Kong.
As the local team pretty understands everyone's anticipation to the
conference
so we will try to keep you informed about the latest update of the
conference
whenever they can be release to the public
Here are a few piece of info I think you will be interested to know
*a. Hostel accommodation*
One thing I am sorry to tell you that, the dorm of PolyU is not available
due to renovation in this summer.
So we have arrange the dorm of another university in Kowloon, Baptist
University for scholarship recipients (whether WMF or Chapter scholarship)
However, the BU dorm is not in the walking distance to PolyU,
but it is still in a very convenient location, just two MTR stations away
from PolyU
and we will also arrange shuttle in the morning, to getting most people to
the venue.
We estimate there are still a number of beds that can be available as
hostel options,
so the local team will start accepting reservation for these extra beds
when the scholarship recipients start getting letter of notifications.
We will only accept those reservation request from those who are not
supported by any scholarship or any Wikimedia entities,
and also we may consider reserving some beds for Wikipedians/wikimedians
only
For the location of the new dorm, you may visit this website:
http://sa.hkbu.edu.hk/ugh/hallmap.html
More information will be available in the official wiki
*b. Parties*
We are basically settled on the choice of venue for both welcoming parties
and closing parties
however we cannot reveal too much, either we are still negotiation, or
revealing may lead to some extra cost.
For the opening party, please pray for a good weather, as you can enjoy the
famous harbour view from the venue.
and for the closing party, considering some feedbacks we will switch to a
Beach party, rather than Beach barbecue
the location is also different from the one we stated in the bid
however, you can still experience the different landscape of Hong Kong
(suppose you never see or even expect)
If you have any questions, please feel free to keep asking in the current
available means
like here, or the wiki page, we may try to be active on IRC, but due to the
time difference.... we cannot be always online while you're online
lOOking forward to seeing you here in August
--
Jeromy-Yu "Jerry" Chan, ARAD
User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia
Advisor, Wikimedia Hong Kong
ChapCom/ComCom, Wikimedia Foundation
Coordinator-in-Chief, Wikimania 2013
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