Thank you for this update, Jerry! Good to know that the organisation is well on track.
Best regards,
Bence
On Friday, March 22, 2013, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan <yuyu@wikimedia.hk> wrote:
> Dear Wikimaniacs & Non-Wikimaniacs
> This is your local team lead for this years conference in Hong Kong.
> As the local team pretty understands everyone's anticipation to the conference
> so we will try to keep you informed about the latest update of the conference
> whenever they can be release to the public
> Here are a few piece of info I think you will be interested to know
> a. Hostel accommodation
> One thing I am sorry to tell you that, the dorm of PolyU is not available due to renovation in this summer.
> So we have arrange the dorm of another university in Kowloon, Baptist University for scholarship recipients (whether WMF or Chapter scholarship)
> However, the BU dorm is not in the walking distance to PolyU,
> but it is still in a very convenient location, just two MTR stations away from PolyU
> and we will also arrange shuttle in the morning, to getting most people to the venue.
> We estimate there are still a number of beds that can be available as hostel options,
> so the local team will start accepting reservation for these extra beds
> when the scholarship recipients start getting letter of notifications.
> We will only accept those reservation request from those who are not supported by any scholarship or any Wikimedia entities,
> and also we may consider reserving some beds for Wikipedians/wikimedians only
> For the location of the new dorm, you may visit this website: http://sa.hkbu.edu.hk/ugh/hallmap.html
> More information will be available in the official wiki
> b. Parties
> We are basically settled on the choice of venue for both welcoming parties and closing parties
> however we cannot reveal too much, either we are still negotiation, or revealing may lead to some extra cost.
> For the opening party, please pray for a good weather, as you can enjoy the famous harbour view from the venue.
> and for the closing party, considering some feedbacks we will switch to a Beach party, rather than Beach barbecue
> the location is also different from the one we stated in the bid
> however, you can still experience the different landscape of Hong Kong (suppose you never see or even expect)
>
>
> If you have any questions, please feel free to keep asking in the current available means
> 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're online
> lOOking forward to seeing you here in August
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