is there someone who will be looking at/organising bulk flight
discounts with carriers who service many countries in this region?
we should try to estimate numbers of attendees from each country.
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John Vandenberg
Hi all
As I am not on any chapter board,
so I may seems stupid to ask this (but actually I dun really had that info)
as I didn't see any candidate from Asia this time (again)
so wondering any Asian Chapter made up their mind to support any candidate
yet?
(or should not express anything here actually?)
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Hi everyone,
First of all, I'd like to extend my congratulations to Wikimedia Hong Kong for their successful Wikimania 2013 bid. Looks like we'll be flooding Wikimania next year. :P
Secondly, I'm writing this e-mail to see whether or not it will be possible for us to organize an Asian Wikimedia conference sometime in the future, either next year or in 2014. I think it would be good for us if we can organize a regional conference, especially with the wave of regional conferences being organized: WikiBilim organized the Turkic Wikimedia Conference for Central Asia last month, and Iberocoop is organizing the Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit this year in Santiago, Chile. Maybe we can do the same? What do you guys think?
Regards,
Josh
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Well done everyone involved!!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"
<wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
excellent job.
There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
good combination of venue and accommodation.
The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
year.
We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
their submissions.
To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
Please, do join in the discussions.
Yours,
James Forrester
Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
[0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
[4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
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John Vandenberg
Halo all
As you all know that HK is among the finalists of the Wikimania 2013 bid
with London
However, as the original announcement date already passed,
and there still no clue will be come out any day soon
so I am not sure more time will benefit the London Bid, as sort of
"buy-time" affect
We, HK bidding will try to use this time to facilitate as much as possible
to secure the bid
however, I also need your help to express the idea that there will be 6
years
that no single Wikimania in Asia-Pacific proper in 2013
So I wonder if you can* personally *tweet, facebook status about this
matter,
and express your support to our bid.
(share our bidding page as well
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids/Hong_Kong )
(of course if any official or community account can express such support
will be even better
Chapter's Letter of support is also welcomed)
please feel free to express your opinion on this
even you dislike this idea :)
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Jeromy-Yu "Jerry" Chan, ARAD
User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia
Advisor, Wikimedia Hong Kong
ChapCom/ComCom, Wikimedia Foundation
Communications Co-Head, Wikimania HK Bidding Team
also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places
http://yuyu.be/txt | http://about.me/jeromyu
Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601
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