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

Ziko van Dijk vandijk at wmnederland.nl
Tue Nov 5 18:36:26 UTC 2013


More success might have East London / Oos Londen. :-)
Ziko

Am Dienstag, 5. November 2013 schrieb Jon Davies :

> Is a bid for South London allowed next year?
>
>
> On 1 November 2013 23:44, James Forrester <jdforrester at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Forwarding for info.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: James Forrester <jdforrester at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> > 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 <javascript:;>>
> >
> >
> > 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 <javascript:;>
> > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
> > capacity)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > James D. Forrester
> > jdforrester at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
> > capacity)
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