[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

[Jon Davies]

Is a bid for South London allowed next year?


On 1 November 2013 23:44, James Forrester <jdforrester at gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: James Forrester <jdforrester at gmail.com>
> Date: 1 November 2013 18:43
> Subject: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers
> To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
> wikimania-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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>
> Dear all,
>
> Soon we will be kicking off the selection process for deciding where we
> will hold Wikimania 2015[0].
>
> The Requests for Proposals (RfP) is being written right now[1], and will be
> coming out soon, but in this e-mail we would like to invite volunteers to
> serve on the selection jury[2]. The jury will select the winning bid based
> on published criteria, reviewing the bids from January onwards until the
> final selection is made in April 2014.
>
> This is roughly 30-40 hours' work, and is key to us making Wikimania a
> strong, healthy community conference that we all can enjoy. The Wikimania
> Committee will select a jury that is a balanced representation of the
> community, from a diverse range of backgrounds, sexes, languages, cultures
> and regions of the world.
>
> The main criteria are as follows:
>
> * You want to help make Wikimania as great a celebration of the community
> as we can make it;
> * You can represent some of the Wikimedia community's varied projects and
> activities;
> * You have some experience of community events, meetings, conferences, or
> want to learn;
> * You have some free time during the selection period, especially late
> March and early April; and
> * You are not closely involved in any bid (it's a conflict of interest).
>
> If you would like to serve on the jury, please e-mail Florence Devouard
> (off-list) [[Wikipedia:User:Anthere]] at fdevouard @ wikimedia.org by 12
> November. We will announce the jury in two weeks' time.
>
> Please help us by translating this message and passing it on to your wiki's
> community for those that don't read these mailing lists.
>
> Thank you, and good luck to all Bids.
>
> [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015
> [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids
> [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_jury
>
> On behalf of the Wikimania Committee.
>
> Yours,
> --
> James D. Forrester
> jdforrester at gmail.com
> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
> capacity)
>
>
>
> --
> James D. Forrester
> jdforrester at gmail.com
> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
> capacity)
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