Excellent. Thank you, Mohamed and Muhammad. We
are still waiting to
hear back from 3 of the recent wikimania teams. I second the hope
that this will help all future Wikimanias!
Warm regards, Sam
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Mohamed Ibrahim
<mido.architect(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Sam,
Thanks again for your kind invitation to our team, appreciated.
Muhammad Yahia [Shipmaster] is the one from our core team we're proposing to
join the committee.
Good luck to all and hope this will help future Wikimanias :)
On 10 July 2013 23:27, Mohamed Ibrahim <mido.architect(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I will pass the message to the organizing team.
> Thank you for your efforts guys, hope that will help next Wikimanias
> organizing and bidding teams
>
>
> On 10 July 2013 22:21, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also - please pass this request on to your original organizing team --
>> to whom future Wikimaniacs are all grateful -- and check with them.
>> Ideally your team would agree on the person to be nominated to
>> represent your team's experience on the committee. But they should
>> at least be informed that we are looking for a representative.
>>
>> For those who want to be involved, but don't have time to commit to
>> being an active committee member, most of the committee's work will be
>> public on meta / in public chats, and all participation will be warmly
>> welcome.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Sam.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear Mido, Patricio, Marcin, Deror, and James,
>>>
>>> A Wikimania committee is being put together, to appoint next year's
>>> jury and improve knowledge sharing and mentoring for Wikimania teams.
>>> The goal is to include a representative each year from each of the
>>> past 5 conferences. Could you suggest someone from your past
>>> organizing team, including yourself, who might be interested in this?
>>>
>>> More info:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>> Sam.
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
>>> Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:16 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-jury] The future of Wikimania
>>> To: Wikimania jury list <wikimania-jury(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> OK, it seems there is significant enough support for this :) That
>>> would mean the members would be:
>>>
>>> * Someone from or selected by the main organizing team of Wikimania
>>> 2008 (Alexandria)
>>> * Someone from or selected by the main organizing team of Wikimania
>>> 2009 (Buenos Aires)
>>> * Someone from or selected by the main organizing team of Wikimania
>>> 2010 (Gdansk)
>>> * Someone from or selected by the main organizing team of Wikimania
>>> 2011 (Haifa)
>>> * Someone from or selected by the main organizing team of Wikimania
>>> 2012 (Washington DC)
>>> * James Forrester
>>> * Ex officio: Ellie Young
>>>
>>> I don't think it would be fair to use the ' first come, first
serve'
>>> principle for these people, so I suggest someone takes it upon
>>> themselves to email the core team of each city, and ask if they could
>>> come to a conclusion among themselves in the next 2 weeks? If they
>>> have no-one from their midst that can/wants to attend, they could also
>>> select someone else of course that they feel represents their
>>> experience.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Lodewijk
>>
>>
>>
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>> 4266
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