Last week's meeting logs have been posted and a summary has been written. It
is available here <http://tinyurl.com/3x5sj4> . Please remember that there
will be no meeting this Wednesday. The next meeting will be March 5. Please
remember to RSVP here <http://tinyurl.com/yonojc> prior to then if you
intend on attending.
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Mitchell D. (Greeves)
Secretary
Wikimedia Canada Steering Committee
Wikimania 2008 bid organisers:
* We might want to consider revising that listing and adding on
Brisbane (I definitely don't think this was purposeful, the list is
probably from before Brisbane was a candidate).
* We might want to get those sponsorships up... and a rough outline of
the budget, I had noticed this was lacking too... :-(
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From: Zero <zero1328(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Who's supporting the Wikimania 09 Brisbane bid?
To: Wikimedia-au <wikimediaau-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
That's not the only thing that's wrong with Toronto's bid page. It's
been on my mind ever since the beginning, and I had a friend of mine
(unrelated to wiki-whatever) look over the bid pages, and she noticed
it too.
A fair amount of Toronto's bid page appears irrelevant to the
suitability of being a host city. It's information on the city in
general, with no indication on sponsorships. I was going to just be
quiet on this and hope the jury picked up on this too, since I didn't
want to appear biased or unfriendly.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Craig Franklin <craig(a)halo-17.net> wrote:
>
> On a related point, does anyone else think that the following statement on
> Toronto's page is a bit mean, considering that Brisbane is actually on that
> list, and well ahead of Singapore and the other cities cited?
>
> "According to the 2007 World's Top 100 Most Livable Cities rankings, Toronto
> is 15th place, Singapore is 34, London is 39, Chicago is 44, Seattle is 49,
> Budapest is 74, Buenos Aires is 79, Cape Town is 85. Other Wikimania
> candidate cities don't rank. Surpassing Toronto are Zurich, Geneva,
> Vancouver, Vienna, Auckland, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Bern, Sydney,
> Copenhagen, Wellington, Amsterdam, and Brussels."
>
> In the interests of friendly competition I have consciously desisted from
> putting down other entries, preferring instead to concentrate on Brisbane's
> advantages. However, this strikes me as a bit of a low blow. If anyone
> thinks I'm being over-sensitive I'll shut up, otherwise I might politely ask
> their bid team to remove or revise that little bit.
>
> Regards,
> Craig F.
>
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> Toombul, Q, 4012
> Australia
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> and Culture.
>
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Wikimedia Canada Steering Committee
Hi everyone!
I may be a little late in announcing this on the mailing list, but logs and
a summary for last Wednesday's meeting have been posted to the meeting page
<http://tinyurl.com/2j5gmb> . The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday,
February 20th in #wikimedia-ca at 20:00 EST (or 1:00 UTC on the 21st).
Please RSVP and add to the agenda on next week's meeting page
<http://tinyurl.com/3x5sj4> .
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Mitchell D. (Greeves)
Secretary
Wikimedia Canada Steering Committee
How many people would be open to discussing Wikimania at some point
this Saturday afternoon? Perhaps at 2 or 3 pm EST or so?
Please, familarize yourself with the bid, and start hacking at it in
every direction. I'm sure that there's holes, and we need to fix them
now. More importantly, we need to show that there's more than four
people working on the bid.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009/Bids/Toronto
Nick
Does anyone know how to reach HOTR or Historybuff? He missed a soft
deadline and I don't observe that he has an account on META nor does his
Wikiversity account have an email link.
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This is just a reminder about our meeting tomorrow. At the meeting page
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section for RSVPing, as we have done for past meetings. Please sign up!
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Mitchell D. (Greeves)
Secretary
Wikimedia Canada Steering Committee
I've finished the merger of the two drafts of the bylaws, and the result
(with links to the originals) are here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Canada/Proposed_by-laws
There needs to be a bit of legal tweaking done still. There was a lot of
work done on these drafts previously, and in many cases the wording was in a
different order. I've tried to capture all of the difference in strikeout
text, where the letter of the drafts differed in substantive ways.
I've eliminated the numbering of the sections for now, as it's the content
that needs review.
I'd like to extend thanks to Ec and Greeves, the main authors of the drafts,
and of course anyone who contributed to them.
Thanks,
Gerald.
The formal meeting with the judges is coming up soon, and I'd like to have a
brief pre-meeting/discussion to decide on which of the 2 meetings we will
attend, and to fine tune the bid page.
If anyone is interested in helping out with the bid, attending, or just
proofreading, feel free to drop me a note indicating what you might be
interested in doing, either to this list or to my e-mail address.
Thanks,
Gerald.