Please consider this a formal announcement that the public meeting with existing bidders will be held on September 23, at 1500UTC, which is: 8:00AM in San Francisco 11:00AM in New York 16:00 in London 23:00 in Taipei midnight in Tokyo (next day) and 01:00AM in Sydney. The meeting will take place on IRC, on freenode, on channel #wikimania2008. For instructions on how to obtain an IRC client or how to connect to the wikipedia IRC channels, see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC_channels>. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207 E-Mail: cbass(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

Just 2 things about this. Will the meeting be logged as i can't make it due to travel arrangements and i dont want to miss it! Also the channel was set as invite only, is this going to be removed for the chat (sorry if it has been already - havent made it onto irc for a day or two).

Wikinews Markie wrote: 1) The meeting will be logged. 2) As we haven't completely decided on the meeting format, whatever the status of the channel today has nothing to do with it on Sunday. We'll deal with that Sunday, okay? :)