Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:54:11 +0100
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com>
To: wikimediauk-l <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Announcement two finalists
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Congratulations to the London bid team for making the short list!
Commiserations to the Bristol bid team - I'm sure your hard work won't
be in vain, there will be other opportunities to make use of all the
contacts and relationships you've built up.

Now that were is only one UK bid in the running, can we expect to see
more support from WMUK? I'm sure the London team would benefit from
Daria's help with fine tuning anything that the jury might be
concerned about.


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From: Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>
Date: 22 April 2012 20:34
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Announcement two finalists for Wikimania 2013
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Dear all,

it is my pleasure to announce that the jury has been able to come up
with?an intermediate result - and I would like to share with you the
fact that?two finalist bids have been selected. All bids have been
examined and?discussed at three public IRC meetings and several
private conversations,?and we?have come to the conclusion that we will
now focus our attention on the two?bids with in our opinion the
highest potential: Hong Kong and London (in?alphabetical order).

We were blessed this year with a strong field of bids, and I would
like to?extend our sincere thanks to the bidding teams of Bristol,
Naples and?Surakarta for their extensive and well worked out bids -
but also the?effort they put into answering our extensive enquiries. I
think all three?bids had very good qualities and their strong points
and with work could?make a wonderful and very competing bid in a
future year.

This decision has been made based on the primary evaluation of the bid
quality, with a special focus to suitability of the Venue,
Accommodation?and the reliability and viability of the local team (did
we have the?feeling they were up for the task). We will not be sharing
an extensive?reasoning at this point for each bid - but I think we can
give feedback?after the final decision about the winning bid has been
made, in private?communication.

So what is next? The two candidates will be reviewed more extensively,
we?will assess the risks and whether they will actually be able to
live up to?the promises more thoroughly. We may be needing a few days
extra compared?to the original timeline, but hopefully not too much.

With kind regards, for the Wikimania 2013 jury,

Lodewijk Gelauff


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