Re: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Announcement two finalists for Wikimania 2013

-- Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr. Wikimedia Philippines Inc. ------------------------------ The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the original message and attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email. On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:13 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote: > Congrats to the Hong Kong team. > > If there is anything other local chapters can do to help you with this > final phase, please let us know. Good luck! > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org > Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:34 AM > Subject: [Wikimania-l] Announcement two finalists for Wikimania 2013 > To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" > wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Dear all, > > it is my pleasure to announce that the jury has been able to come up > with an intermediate result - and I would like to share with you the > fact that two finalist bids have been selected. All bids have been > examined and discussed at three public IRC meetings and several > private conversations, and we have come to the conclusion that we will > now focus our attention on the two bids with in our opinion the > highest potential: Hong Kong and London (in alphabetical order). > > We were blessed this year with a strong field of bids, and I would > like to extend our sincere thanks to the bidding teams of Bristol, > Naples and Surakarta for their extensive and well worked out bids - > but also the effort they put into answering our extensive enquiries. I > think all three bids had very good qualities and their strong points > and with work could make a wonderful and very competing bid in a > future year. > > This decision has been made based on the primary evaluation of the bid > quality, with a special focus to suitability of the Venue, > Accommodation and the reliability and viability of the local team (did > we have the feeling they were up for the task). We will not be sharing > an extensive reasoning at this point for each bid - but I think we can > give feedback after the final decision about the winning bid has been > made, in private communication. > > So what is next? The two candidates will be reviewed more extensively, > we will assess the risks and whether they will actually be able to > live up to the promises more thoroughly. We may be needing a few days > extra compared to the original timeline, but hopefully not too much. > > With kind regards, for the Wikimania 2013 jury, > > Lodewijk Gelauff > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list > Wikimedia-asia-chapters@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters >