On 10 January 2012 06:53, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
On 10.01.2012 00:49, Deryck Chan wrote:
It's been another few days into January. Has the jury been selected yet?
well, who is "selecting" the jury?
So far as I know this is a community process, so everyone with a plan could come up and take this into her / his hand.
I am hesitant because James Forrester already started to ask potential jury members and engaged in setting up the process, so it looked like he had the plan for 2013 at least and I don't want to mess with the work he has already done.
So it would be good if he could give us a short update what he plans to do or if someone else could / should take over.
Hey everyone,
Really sorry for the delay in this. A bunch of issues around this (and IRL workload) have delayed me hugely; my apologies.
I propose to just charge ahead and announce a Jury in an hour's time or so; I've tried my best to balance it (in the same way that we did in previous years), which is not perfect - not by a long shot - but gets us:
(a) a Jury in place to make a decision in the next couple of months so that 2013 bids can actually happen, and
(b) gives us a really good reason for this to be the last-ever Jury created in this way, as I said on 30 December; I really don't want this to be the process for 2014 (even if I dump this part on someone else).
I hope this meets with everyone's approval (OK, the majority's acceptance - asking for mass approval is perhaps too much!).
Yours,