Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2009 - deadline

Patricio (and the rest of the bid team),

On behalf of the jury and moderators, I am very sorry it has taken so long. My apologies also for not sending out a note to the bid teams letting you know about the delay. As has been the case the last three years, the bids are *very* strong and the jury has had a lot to consider and discuss (as anyone who has followed all the various Wikimania discussions the last few years can imagine!)

We are working on a decision announcement now, and I hope to post it soon.

-- Phoebe

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Patricio Lorente patricio.lorente@gmail.com wrote:

Dear friends:

                    We are writting this email in behalf of

Wikimedia Argentina, to tell you about our concern because of the lack of news about the jury decision and even about when this decision may be taken.

                    This is not just a personal concern and is not

only caused by an understandable anxiety: we are being requested from potential sponsors and media and we are delaying this meetings because we don't know what to tell them. The worst thing is that we can't tell them at least when are we going to know the decision. The Director of our proposed venue is pushing us to define if we are going to use it or not, because they need to set the 2009 agenda. And so on. We think the Toronto team may have the same problems.

                    The last deadline finished twelve days ago,

and since then we had no news. We don't want to disturb nor to hurry up the jury discussion, but it would be of great help if the jury could establish a final date. If this is done, at least part of the uncertainty will disappear.

                    Thanks,

                                   Patricio Lorente Presidente
                                   Enrique Chaparro (Vicepresidente)
                                   Wikimedia Argentina