On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<philippe(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Due to differences between climate conditions of
DC and HK, Wikimania
2013 will accommodate fewer lectures than Wikimania 2012.
Hi Deryck,
I don't understand this sentence. Can you please explain what is meant
here?
Hi Philippe
Basically this is a technical issue, as a contingency plan for Typhoon
(we actually stated in the bidding process)
usually a typhoon will strike Hong Kong for 8-12 hours even it is a direct
hit
in some cases when it strikes in the day time
usually will only affect us a Morning or an afternoon, or a whole day
cancellation
so it this kind of situation we need to squeeze the program into the rest
of the time
so we tend to have longer coffee and lunch breaks in normal times
then we will squeeze the program into the original break time when typhoon
lead to cancellation of events
Thanks,
pb
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