Dear Wikimaniacs
Happy New Year to all of you!
As the lead of the local team, I am thrilled to announce that the arrangements of Programme Committee & Scholarship Committee are already settled.
The members of the committees are listed as follows
Programme Committee
Name Affiliation Simon Shek 2013 local team Deryck Chan 2013 local team Katie Filbert 2012 PC, WMDC Kiril Simeonovski 2012 PC, WMMK Deror Lin 2012 PC, WMIL Gyenes Orsolya Virág WMHU Greg Varnum 2012 PC Sarah Stierch 2012 PC, WMDC James Forrester Perpetual Wikimaniac John Vandenberg WMAU Ota Takashi Japan WG
Scholarship Committee
Name Affiliation Simon Shek 2013 local team Deryck Chan 2013 local team Martin Rulsch WMDE, steward Christopher Cooper WMUK Osmar Valdebenito WMAR Kudpung Thailand WG Katie Chan WMUK, GAC Nicholas Bashour 2012 local team, WMDC Karthik Nadar WMIN
The non-voting members Jessie Wild WMF liaison W.F. Siu 2013 local team technical Manuel Schneider WMCH technical
I would like to express a big thank you to all have everyone expressed their will to help us in the conference.
and to whom selected to the committees, I would like to wish you good luck, and work happily and smoothly with the local team.
And for those who are not selected and rest of Wikimaniacs, volunteers are always important for our conference, and there are still some opportunities that the local team call for your dedication, please stay tuned.
Kung Hei Fat Choi! (As Chinese New Year is approaching soon)
On 4 January 2013 23:35, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan yuyu@wikimedia.hkwrote:
James Forrester Perpetual Wikimaniac
Perfect. :-)
Thank you to all of the volunteers who have agreed to take on these responsibilities.
Risker/Anne
Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan, 05/01/2013 05:35:
Programme Committee
NameAffiliation Simon Shek2013 local team Deryck Chan2013 local team Katie Filbert2012 PC, WMDC Kiril Simeonovski2012 PC, WMMK Deror Lin 2012 PC, WMIL Gyenes Orsolya Virág WMHU Greg Varnum2012 PC Sarah Stierch2012 PC, WMDC James ForresterPerpetual Wikimaniac John VandenbergWMAU Ota TakashiJapan WG
What are their thoughts on last year's feedback and discussions on the program? Some people (Gmaxwell comes to mind) asked to change the process quite a bit. https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Program
Nemo
Due to differences between climate conditions of DC and HK, Wikimania 2013 will accommodate fewer lectures than Wikimania 2012. The standard of acceptance was already high for 2012, so we plan to move from a 7-point scale to a 10-point scale to allow for more detailed ranking of in-scope submissions.
There will also be better communication between the programme committee and the scholarship committee, to avoid sending confusing messages to submission authors who have also applied for a scholarship.
Of course, we will avoid letting submissions remain "under review" until Wikimania happens.
Deryck On Jan 5, 2013 10:37 PM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan, 05/01/2013 05:35:
Programme Committee
NameAffiliation Simon Shek2013 local team Deryck Chan2013 local team Katie Filbert2012 PC, WMDC Kiril Simeonovski2012 PC, WMMK Deror Lin 2012 PC, WMIL Gyenes Orsolya Virág WMHU Greg Varnum2012 PC Sarah Stierch2012 PC, WMDC James ForresterPerpetual Wikimaniac John VandenbergWMAU Ota TakashiJapan WG
What are their thoughts on last year's feedback and discussions on the program? Some people (Gmaxwell comes to mind) asked to change the process quite a bit. <https://wikimania2012.**wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#**Programhttps://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Program
Nemo
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On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Deryck Chan deryckchan@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?
Thanks, pb
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Philippe Beaudette philippe@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Deryck Chan deryckchan@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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