Dear Wikimaniacs &amp; Non-Wikimaniacs<div><br></div><div>This is your local team lead for this years conference in Hong Kong. </div><div><br></div><div>As the local team pretty understands everyone&#39;s anticipation to the conference</div>

<div>so we will try to keep you informed about the latest update of the conference</div><div>whenever they can be release to the public</div><div><br></div><div>Here are a few piece of info I think you will be interested to know</div>

<div><br></div><div><b>a. Hostel accommodation</b></div><div>One thing I am sorry to tell you that, the dorm of PolyU is not available due to renovation in this summer.</div><div>So we have arrange the dorm of another university in Kowloon, Baptist University for scholarship recipients (whether WMF or Chapter scholarship)</div>

<div><br></div><div>However, the BU dorm is not in the walking distance to PolyU,</div><div>but it is still in a very convenient location, just two MTR stations away from PolyU</div><div>and we will also arrange shuttle in the morning, to getting most people to the venue. </div>

<div><br></div><div>We estimate there are still a number of beds that can be available as hostel options,</div><div>so the local team will start accepting reservation for these extra beds</div><div>when the scholarship recipients start getting letter of notifications.</div>

<div><br></div><div>We will only accept those reservation request from those who are not supported by any scholarship or any Wikimedia entities,</div><div>and also we may consider reserving some beds for Wikipedians/wikimedians only</div>

<div><br>For the location of the new dorm, you may visit this website:  <a href="http://sa.hkbu.edu.hk/ugh/hallmap.html">http://sa.hkbu.edu.hk/ugh/hallmap.html</a></div><div>More information will be available in the official wiki</div>

<div><br></div><div><b>b. Parties</b></div><div>We are basically settled on the choice of venue for both welcoming parties and closing parties</div><div>however we cannot reveal too much, either we are still negotiation, or revealing may lead to some extra cost.</div>

<div><br></div><div>For the opening party, please pray for a good weather, as you can enjoy the famous harbour view from the venue.</div><div><br></div><div>and for the closing party, considering some feedbacks we will switch to a Beach party, rather than Beach barbecue</div>

<div>the location is also different from the one we stated in the bid</div><div>however, you can still experience the different landscape of Hong Kong (suppose you never see or even expect)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

<div><br></div><div>If you have any questions, please feel free to keep asking in the current available means</div><div>like here, or the wiki page, we may try to be active on IRC, but due to the time difference.... we cannot be always online while you&#39;re online</div>

<div><br></div><div>lOOking forward to seeing you here in August</div><div><div><div><br></div>-- <br>Jeromy-Yu &quot;Jerry&quot; Chan, ARAD<div>User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia<br>Advisor, Wikimedia Hong Kong<br>ChapCom/ComCom, Wikimedia Foundation</div>

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