Hi all,
This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for posting an initial
Wikimania 2011 bid is *Monday, February 8*, just three short weeks
away. Remember, you don't have to specify any details at this point;
you just have to list the city your team plans to bid with (you can
always withdraw later if it seems unpromising). Bid today if you plan
to! Details:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids
regards,
-- Phoebe
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Hello Wiki researchers and Wikimaniacs,
This is just a quick pre-announcement that WikiSym 2010 will be
colocated with Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland.
WikiSym will be from July 7-9, 2010 and Wikimania will be from July 9-11, 2010.
http://www.wikisym.org/2009/12/24/save-the-date-wikisym-2010/
Our call for papers will be coming very soon -- start thinking now
about what you want to submit!
best regards,
Phoebe Ayers
WikiSym 2010 Symposium chair
The bidding process for Wikimania 2011 is now open for business!
==DEADLINES==
Timeline: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids
Important dates:
* February 8, 2010 (0:01 UTC): Bidding creation ends. List of running
cities announced.
WHAT THIS MEANS: if you want to bid, create a page on Meta (see below)
and add your city to the list. Your bid does not have to say anything
beyond "we're bidding!" at this point. New bids will not be accepted
after this date, however.
* March 29, 2010 (0:00 UTC): Bidding ends. All major information on
bidding pages must be finalized.
WHAT THIS MEANS: your bid must be complete! all information about your
proposed venue, accommodation, key team, etc. should be posted. Minor
changes (updated information, background information) will be accepted
after this date, but the critical parts of the bid should be finished.
* March 31 - April 12: Refining of bids and answering questions.
WHAT THIS MEANS: you can clarify unclear parts and add updated
information. Suddenly divulging a new venue is not ok, though.
* April 12: Question & Answer from jury ends
* April 13 - April 26: Jury deliberation.
* April 27, 2010: Announcement of host city to public.
The early timeline means that (if followed) hopefully representatives
of the winning bid will be able to attend this year's Wikimania in
Gdansk, which is very helpful for organizers.
==HELPFUL INFORMATION==
To file a bid, follow these directions:
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Official_requirements_for_bid…
The criteria for bids, with a few minor changes from last year, are here:
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Judging_criteria
==UNOFFICIAL ADVICE==
Previous winning bids can be found linked on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
All winning bids have shared certain characteristics: a strong
community-based team with defined roles and leadership, a thoughtful
budget, careful consideration of the spaces Wikimania will be in, an
attention to detail and to all of the criteria, and a willingness to
improve on the last conference.
That page also has links to the suggestions for improvement that
people have made after each conference. These follow patterns too and
can be helpful to review.
As a bid team, it can be helpful to articulate -- both for yourselves
and the jury -- what you want Wikimania to be and what you envision it
being for the community.
All members of the community should feel free to discuss and analyze
bids as they are developed; this is not a sealed process. Members of
the jury have to carefully review each bid, and having any unclear
areas pointed out and discussed (and fixed) ahead of time can be very
helpful.
Finally, if you have any questions or suggestions or comments on the
bidding process, as always, post them to the talk page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2011
If you have any questions for the Wikimania jury specifically, please
email them to me or to James Forrester and we will pass them along to
the private jury mailing list. All private communications with the
jury are confidential.
best regards, and good luck --
Phoebe Ayers
Wikimania 2011 jury moderator (non-voting)
on behalf of the 2011 jury:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Jury
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Reporters sans frontières / Reporters Without Borders
English: http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=35424
Français : http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=35423
For immediate release
December 22, 2009
EGYPT
Court rejects retrial for jailed blogger kareem amer
Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision by the Cairo court of
cassation today to reject a request by the lawyers of jailed blogger
Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, better known by the pen-name of Kareem
Amer, for his case to be retried. The judges said they would give the
reasons for their ruling on 26 December.
“This decision shows the Egyptian judicial system’s lack of
independence,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The authorities
decided to make an example of Kareem Amer in order to intimidate
Egyptians who use the Internet to express their views freely and
criticise the government. We hope the court will at least give a
detailed explanation to justify this arbitrary decision.”
Although all of Kareem Amer’s possibilities of appeal have been
exhausted, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has
petitioned a Cairo administrative court for his release under an
Egyptian law that allows the authorities to free prisoners for a “good
conduct” when they have completed three quarters of their sentence, as
Kareem Amer has. But it seems that interior minister Habib Ibrahim
Habib Al-Adli is opposed to this possibility.
Arrested in November 2006 and mistreated in prison, Kareem Amer was
given a four-year jail sentence on 22 February 2007 on charges of
“insulting” the president and Islam. The sentence was confirmed on
appeal on 12 March 2007.
He was arrested over the comments he had posted online criticising
discrimination against women in Egypt and authoritarian excess of the
government and the highest religious authorities including the Sunni
University of Al-Azhar.
Read the previous release on this case : http://www.rsf.org/Cairo-court-to-rule-on-jailed.html?var_mode=calcul
Read and sign the petition for Kareem Amer’s release: http://www.rsf.org/en-petition21993-Kareem_Amer_.html
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Communiqué de presse
22 décembre 2009
EGYPTE
La justice refuse un nouveau procès pour le blogueur Kareem Amer
La Cour de cassation du Caire a rejeté aujourd’hui, 22 décembre 2009,
la demande déposée par les avocats du blogueur égyptien Kareem Amer de
voir son cas rejugé. Les juges devraient faire connaître les motifs de
leur décision le 26 décembre.
Reporters sans frontières a condamné ce verdict, "qui montre le manque
d’indépendance de la justice égyptienne. Le gouvernement a décidé de
faire de Kareem Amer un exemple pour intimider ces internautes
égyptiens qui n’hésitent pas à s’exprimer librement sur la Toile en
critiquant le pouvoir en place". "Nous espérons qu’à tout le moins le
tribunal va fournir des explications détaillées pour justifier une
telle décision arbitraire", a ajouté l’organisation.
Même si toutes les possibilités de recours de la condamnation de
Kareem Amer sont désormais épuisées, l’Arabic Network for Human Rights
Information (ANHRI) a fait appel à la Cour administrative du Caire,
afin d’obtenir la libération du blogueur. La loi égyptienne permet en
effet une libération pour "bonne conduite" et après que le prisonnier
a purgé 75 % de sa peine, ce qui est le cas de Kareem Amer. Le
ministre de l’Intérieur, Habib Ibrahim Habib Al-Adli, semble toutefois
s’opposer à cette possibilité.
Arrêté en novembre 2006, Kareem Amer avait été condamné, le 22 février
2007, à quatre ans d’emprisonnement en première instance, une peine
confirmée par la cour d’appel, le 12 mars 2007, pour "insulte au
Président et à l’islam". Le blogueur a subi des mauvais traitements en
prison. Kareem Amer avait critiqué sur Internet la discrimination
infligée aux femmes en Egypte et dénonçait les dérives religieuses et
autoritaires du gouvernement et des plus hautes institutions
religieuses, dont l’université sunnite Al-Azhar.
Lire le communiqué précédent : http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=34772
Voir et signer la pétition pour la libération de Kareem Amer :
http://www.rsf.org/fr-petition21985-Kareem_Amer.html
Lucie Morillon
Responsable du bureau Internet et Libertés / Head of the Internet
Freedom Desk
Reporters sans frontières / Reporters Without Borders
internet(a)rsf.org
+33 1 44 83 84 71
Skype: rsfnet
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce (a day late) the members of the jury for the
2011 Wikimania bids. The complete page with links can be found at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Jury>:
Voting members of the jury
* Delphine Ménard (Wikimania 2005, 2006 & 2008 organisation, chapters,
Wikimédia France)
* Austin Hair (Wikimania 2005 & 2006 organisation, chapters)
* Mariano Cecowski (Wikimania 2009 organisation, Wikimedia Argentina)
* Joseph Seddon (Wikimedia UK & Wikimania 2010 Oxford bid team)
* James Owen (Wikimedia Foundation Executive assistant to Sue Gardner &
Wikimania 2010 planning)
* Stuart West (Wikimedia Foundation Board)
* Teemu Leinonen (Advisory Board)
* Benjamin Mako Hill (Advisory Board)
Advisors
* Michael Snow (Wikimedia Foundation Board Chairperson)
* Sue Gardner (Wikimedia Foundation - executive)
Moderator
Note that Moderators are neutral aides and will not act as representatives.
* James Forrester (Perennial Wikimania attendee)
* Phoebe Ayers (Programme and Wikimania 2006 organisation)
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Casey,
Thank you for checking in. Yes I got what I needed for my meetings with the wikimania 2010 organizers. Between what I pulled together from the staff and the postmortem we had very effective discussions. I feel confident in the planners ability to make quick and effective decisions.
Thank you,
James T Owen
------Original Message------
From: Casey Brown
Sender: casey(a)caseybrown.org
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
Cc: James Owen
Cc: pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania post-morten/wrap up
Sent: Dec 12, 2009 09:46
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Does anyone know if there was a postmortem conducted after Wikimania 2009. I
> recall a questioner but we cannot find the results. There is a page on a
> meta for Wikimania 2009 Tech Posmortem which was helpful but not completely
> what is needed. If you have this or any additional data from Wikimania 2009
> can you please forward it to James Owen as soon as possible, he needs it for
> meetings which occur Thursday. His email address is jowen(a)wikimedia.org
Did this ever get responded to?
The post-mortem that the local team was working on can be found at
<http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem>. From what they
told me a few weeks (months?) ago, it's not completely ready yet.
They were going to send an e-mail to the list when it was ready.
I'm a day and half late (sorry, I haven't checked list e-mail in two
weeks), but I figure someone else might be wondering too.
--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
Does anyone know if there was a postmortem conducted after Wikimania
2009. I recall a questioner but we cannot find the results. There is
a page on a meta for Wikimania 2009 Tech Posmortem which was helpful
but not completely what is needed. If you have this or any additional
data from Wikimania 2009 can you please forward it to James Owen as
soon as possible, he needs it for meetings which occur Thursday. His
email address is jowen(a)wikimedia.org
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
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It's not data, but there are notes from the "future of Wikimania" open
discussion that we had posted here:
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_planning_discussion/notes
sorry I didn't send this out sooner.
-- phoebe
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:20 PM, James Owen <jowen(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Does anyone have the Wikimania 2009 Postmortem study, or any data which was
> collected after the conference?
>
> Wikimania-l mailing list
> Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
>
>
--- El vie 4-dic-09, James Owen <jowen(a)wikimedia.org> escribió:
>Does anyone have the Wikimania 2009 Postmortem study, or any data which >was collected after the conference?
It's not approved, nor finished, but it's [going to be available] here:
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem
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