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Wikimania 2013 - Announcement of Jury and invitation to bid
by James Forrester 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Dear all, As promised, for Wikimania 2013[0] I hereby announce the Jury[1] to select the winning bid, and invite everyone to consider putting a bid[2] together: == Jury == * [[User:80686|Manuel Schneider]] * [[User:Beria|Béria Lima]] * [[User:Deror avi|Deror Avi]] * [[User:Effeietsanders|Lodewijk Gelauff]] * [[User:Ilario|Ilario Salvatore Valdelli]] * [[User:Kiril Simeonovski|Kiril Simeonovski]] * [[User:Peteforsyth|Pete Forsyth]] * [[User:Philippe|Philippe Beaudette]] * [[User:Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington|Anirudh Bhati]] * [[User:Theo10011|Theo10011]] * [[User:Thogo|Thomas Goldammer]] There are a further two individuals who I have asked to confirm that they are happy to serve on the Jury, and who I will add on-wiki if and when they confirm. As in previous Juries, any Wikimania Foundation Board members may act as (non-voting) advisors to the Jury if they so choose. I know that Bishakha Datta and Phoebe Ayers have agreed to take on this role, and other Board members may join if they wish. I will serve as a moderator (a neutral non-voting aide to the Jury), along with another individual who will hopefully confirm that this is OK with them later today. Thank you for everyone who contacted me to nominate themselves, others, or give suggestions; the suggestions were very helpful, and I hope the resulting Jury will be a success. == Invitation to bid == To re-iterate my comment in November, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia community would love to see as many good bids as possible. There are already a few bids[2] on Meta, but if you or your local community are thinking about putting one in, you need to get it started and in a reasonable state by the end of 28 January 2012 at the very latest[3]. 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 [3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids/Timeline Yours, -- James D. Forrester jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations
by Pete Forsyth 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:21 AM, <wikimania-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>wrote: > Sure. I'm totally not going to try to rail-road this discussion (or > maybe it should be on-wiki?) by announcing a Jury when we're not sure > how we'll proceed. :-) > > J. > -- > James D. Forrester > jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] There were some useful responses to James' initial message, but I think the end result (through nobody's intention) was to get us off track from selecting a jury for 2013. There are a number of groups working on bids [1]; I think it would be a good thing to get a jury announced so they (we? [2]) can begin laying out the process and guiding toward a decision. This is not intended to dismiss the important "meta issue" about how locations are selected. I agree with what has been said, that it is too late to impose some sort of rotation system for the 2013 process; but I do think it's an idea well worth some deeper consideration. I think that having an active jury would be beneficial to arriving at a well-considered decision on that, so I really don't see a conflict here. I'm hoping to hear from some other folks here: should we encourage James F. to resume his planned course, and select/announce a jury ASAP, without prejudice toward the question of whether a rotation system is implemented after 2013? Jan-Bart? Perhaps a plate of stroopwafels will help move the discussion forward? -Pete [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids [2] I have thrown my name in the ring and would like to have a decision soon, since it will affect how I spend my next few months.

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Wikimania 2012 – Keynote Nominations
by Tiffany Smith 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

It’s that time of year, everyone! We’re making great progress on Wikimania planning, and you should see registration coming open in the next few weeks. We’d like to identify and invite our keynotes in the next few weeks as well, so we have a request for anyone who’s planning to participate. Who would you like to see as a keynote speaker, and why would you like to hear that person speak? Contribute your suggestions to http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule/Keynote by January 7, 2012. There are a few special guidelines for this nomination process that may be different from other nominations in which you’ve participated in the past. First and foremost, the Program Committee is only requesting positive information on nominees. If you have something to share that might reflect negatively on a keynote candidate, please send it through email or another private channel. You’ll also note that the nomination page does not make use of wikitable markup; we’d like to encourage active participation by many members of the community, including those who might be stymied by markup that can seem intimidating to new users. Additionally, we recognize that this is a very short period for nominations. Interested in joining the Wikimania 2012 Program Committee to help make decisions like these and shape a program that will be most meaningful to you? Just let me know! Best, Tiffany Smith Program Committee Chair, Wikimania 2012 tiffany.lmb.smith(a)gmail.com

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Wikimania 2011 videos - mission complete!
by Itzik Edri 23 Dec '11

23 Dec '11

Hi, *I happy to announce that all the videos from Wikimania 2011 in Haifa are now available on our channel in YouTube!: http://www.youtube.com/WikimediaIL .* Next week I will send a HDD with all the footage and the edited videos to the WMF so they will have a copy for archive and so they can upload it to commons also. *Don't forget also to check our Flickr stream!: http://www.flickr.com/WikimediaIL* On the schedule you will find links to the videos: http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule Also, on each submissions page there is a links to the video, slides and Etherpad (if available). *For the presenter who didn't upload their slides yet, please do so and update your submissions page.* *** Bonus! - a video clip that we made after Wikimania to summarize the (amazing!) beach party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-MzHGA6fc *** It was harder than we thought - to record 3 days, in 5 simulation High-Definition cameras, and than edit, upload and tag them - really not an easy thing. What we thought will take us few weeks, took about 2 months - but I'm happy that we finish with that finally :) I think now we've made this step, we finished our commitment to the community and to the conference participants. I Hope everyone will enjoy and will found our (hard) work useful. I personally going to find time to watch some of lectures... (a tip for Wikimania organizers - don't plan to attend session during the conference, you will fail :). And some statistics: We have about 2TB of footages, 135GB of edit videos, all of them are in HD. During the confrtence we produce 3 summaries video clips (and one more after that) Until now the videos on our YouTube channel had been watched more than 16,000 times and our Flickr stream, who have 1,425 photos been seen more than 83,000 times! Thanks everyone for the great opportunity to have this conference in Haifa, and good luck to the great guys in D.C next year! Itzik Wikimania 2011 local team (probably the last time i'm going to use this title...)

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations - A full year should be enough?
by WereSpielChequers 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Hi Lodewijk, I agree that in theory a full year should be enough, but in practice we have some people who need a long time to get visa's sorted for travel to certain countries. Yes we should be able to get some sort of pre early bird process for such people, but in the absence of that it would help to bring the whole process forward. WSC On 15 December 2011 11:15, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote: > Nah, lets not wind ourselves up unnecessarily. There is still plenty of > time - as long as the winners are known around june/july. A full year > should be enough to organize a Wikimania. > > Lodewijk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >

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Wikimania 2013 and concurring events
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

Peter has started https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013#Similar_events (see talk). Could you please help filling it so that bids can consider the possible dates with some more information? Partial info is better than nothing. Thanks, Nemo

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Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations
by James Forrester 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

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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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10
by Mardetanha 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

For visa at least I need 6 month, so it would very great if we can have some sort of help for users who live in such countries, My options are Kabol, Dubai , Baku, Istanbul and ankara, except turkey they all need visa :) Mardetanha On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:15 PM, <wikimania-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>wrote: > Send Wikimania-l mailing list submissions to > wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikimania-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimania-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimania-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4 (Thomas Dalton) > 2. Re: Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4 (Justin Quintal) > 3. Re: Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue (Thomas Dalton) > 4. Re: Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4 (Thomas Dalton) > 5. Re: Wikimania 2011 videos inquiry (Deror Avi) > 6. Re: Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4 (B?ria Lima) > 7. Re: Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4 (Roan Kattouw) > 8. Re: Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4 (Thomas Dalton) > 9. Re: Wikimania 2011 videos inquiry (phoebe ayers) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 01:21:11 +0000 > From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4 > To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" > <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <CALTQccctttGTk--v7h==Wo-2hbcmpU5cxKG8GCr64XemhK__1A(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > You mean try and slip across the border unnoticed? The consequences if you > were caught would be very serious. I don't think the wikimedia movement can > condone illegal immigration in order to attend wikimania. > On Nov 1, 2011 10:58 PM, "Justin Quintal" <cestmoijustin(a)gmail.com> wrote: >

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4
by Thomas Dalton 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

You mean try and slip across the border unnoticed? The consequences if you were caught would be very serious. I don't think the wikimedia movement can condone illegal immigration in order to attend wikimania. On Nov 1, 2011 10:58 PM, "Justin Quintal" <cestmoijustin(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Re: [Wikimania-l] [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury
by Deror Avi 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

As Ray said - The rotation principle is not sacred. It is safe to assume that the 2013 Wikimania will will not be in Eastern United States - but all other continents and even western US may apply for a bid - thus enabling the jury to select the best bid. The rotation principle basically has four purposes: 1. enabling people who can not afford expensive flights (or has visa issues) to attend 2. develop the local wiki community 3. increase the wiki activities in the area it is held. The fact that Wikimania may one year take place in the UK, does not prohibit it from taking place in France the next year (as two of the three purposes is still served). Deror >On 11/23/11 3:29 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> >> It's too late for this year, since a lot of bids have already started, >> but in future I would suggest formalising the currently unofficial >> rotation policy. > >> If everyone knew in advance what continent it was going to be in, you >> won't have bids that are disadvantaged from the outset because they're >> on the wrong continent. >> >> >While the rotation principle is a positive factor, i think it would be a >mistake to formalize it. That could leave us stuck with accepting a bid >that is considerably inferior from one from elsewhere. >Ray

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