The Wikimania bid deadline passed at 8pm this evening. Our bid is submitted, with Georgetown University selected as the most suitable and available venue and dates of July 11-15, 2012. There will be very frequent shuttle bus service between the venue and the Dupont Circle metro station.
We also considered some hotels in DC, but chose the university, as an educational institution and inline with the type of venues that have hosted Wikimania in the past. Other universities include GWU and American were unavailable/unwilling to work with us or lacked capacity for an event, such as ours.
Here is our bid page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C.
Our bid is the only one of the four that has both a venue + budget -- both critical requirements of a bid.
We still are recruiting additional volunteers. Over the next year and 3-4 months, we will need help with recruiting sponsors. During the conference itself, we'll need help with things like taking a smallish group (~20 people) sightseeing, among other help.
Big thanks to James (harej) for coordinating the bid, Racepacket for coordinating the venue, Djembayz, Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Kirill, Metabrarian, AutoGyro, Sadads, Swatjester, MissVain, and everyone else who have helped put the bid together.
Cheers, Katie
Strong work!
On Mar 21, 2011, at 11:33 PM, aude aude.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
The Wikimania bid deadline passed at 8pm this evening. Our bid is submitted, with Georgetown University selected as the most suitable and available venue and dates of July 11-15, 2012. There will be very frequent shuttle bus service between the venue and the Dupont Circle metro station.
We also considered some hotels in DC, but chose the university, as an educational institution and inline with the type of venues that have hosted Wikimania in the past. Other universities include GWU and American were unavailable/unwilling to work with us or lacked capacity for an event, such as ours.
Here is our bid page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C.
Our bid is the only one of the four that has both a venue + budget -- both critical requirements of a bid.
We still are recruiting additional volunteers. Over the next year and 3-4 months, we will need help with recruiting sponsors. During the conference itself, we'll need help with things like taking a smallish group (~20 people) sightseeing, among other help.
Big thanks to James (harej) for coordinating the bid, Racepacket for coordinating the venue, Djembayz, Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Kirill, Metabrarian, AutoGyro, Sadads, Swatjester, MissVain, and everyone else who have helped put the bid together.
Cheers, Katie _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
A truly fine bid. Congratulations. And I like the logo!
2011/3/21 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com:
We still are recruiting additional volunteers. Over the next year and 3-4 months, we will need help with recruiting sponsors.
A comment: the period between bid finalization and the close of evaluations can be exciting, and a good time to draw in new volunteers from around the world. Some of the strongest eventual volunteers for Wikimania in Boston were recruited in the final weeks of bid assessment (around the time of a debate about whether US visa policies were too horrible to consider).
Sam.
2011/3/22 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com:
The Wikimania bid deadline passed at 8pm this evening. Our bid is submitted, with Georgetown University selected as the most suitable and available venue and dates of July 11-15, 2012.
Here is our bid page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C.
Our bid is the only one of the four that has both a venue + budget -- both critical requirements of a bid.
Big thanks to James (harej) for coordinating the bid, Racepacket for coordinating the venue, Djembayz, Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Kirill, Metabrarian, AutoGyro, Sadads, Swatjester, MissVain, and everyone else who have helped put the bid together.
Great work, all of you! I do want to point out that although the deadline for submission has passed, bidding cities are allowed (and expected) to revise their bid in response to feedback from the jury and the community. So although DC has a clear head start, I wouldn't call it a slam dunk just yet.
As a jury member, I obviously can't help develop a particular bid; I do, however, freely offer my advice to anyone, so let me know if there are any questions I can answer.
All the best,
Austin
Nice work! Would it still be valuable to get a letters of support similar to the letter from the National Archives? We were getting close to getting one from the Library of Congress, but these things take time when they need to bubble up.
//Ed
[1[ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/e/e0/Wikimedia_letter_of_support....
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
2011/3/22 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com:
The Wikimania bid deadline passed at 8pm this evening. Our bid is submitted, with Georgetown University selected as the most suitable and available venue and dates of July 11-15, 2012.
Here is our bid page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C.
Our bid is the only one of the four that has both a venue + budget -- both critical requirements of a bid.
Big thanks to James (harej) for coordinating the bid, Racepacket for coordinating the venue, Djembayz, Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Kirill, Metabrarian, AutoGyro, Sadads, Swatjester, MissVain, and everyone else who have helped put the bid together.
Great work, all of you! I do want to point out that although the deadline for submission has passed, bidding cities are allowed (and expected) to revise their bid in response to feedback from the jury and the community. So although DC has a clear head start, I wouldn't call it a slam dunk just yet.
As a jury member, I obviously can't help develop a particular bid; I do, however, freely offer my advice to anyone, so let me know if there are any questions I can answer.
All the best,
Austin
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
Nice work! Would it still be valuable to get a letters of support similar to the letter from the National Archives? We were getting close to getting one from the Library of Congress, but these things take time when they need to bubble up.
Ed,
A letter of support would still be great. Would be especially useful if LOC mentioned anything specific they'd like to do, at least offer tours?
I'm still working on a letter or two from the university.
-Katie
//Ed
[1[ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/e/e0/Wikimedia_letter_of_support....
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
2011/3/22 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com:
The Wikimania bid deadline passed at 8pm this evening. Our bid is submitted, with Georgetown University selected as the most suitable and available venue and dates of July 11-15, 2012.
Here is our bid page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C.
Our bid is the only one of the four that has both a venue + budget --
both
critical requirements of a bid.
Big thanks to James (harej) for coordinating the bid, Racepacket for coordinating the venue, Djembayz, Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Kirill, Metabrarian, AutoGyro, Sadads, Swatjester, MissVain, and everyone else
who
have helped put the bid together.
Great work, all of you! I do want to point out that although the deadline for submission has passed, bidding cities are allowed (and expected) to revise their bid in response to feedback from the jury and the community. So although DC has a clear head start, I wouldn't call it a slam dunk just yet.
As a jury member, I obviously can't help develop a particular bid; I do, however, freely offer my advice to anyone, so let me know if there are any questions I can answer.
All the best,
Austin
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2011/3/22 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com
The Wikimania bid deadline passed at 8pm this evening.
When/how should we expect feedback on our bid?
Alex
2011/3/22 Alex Stinson stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu:
When/how should we expect feedback on our bid?
The jury's Q&A period begins right away, so keep an eye out for questions and comments on the bid's talk page. We'll also be having at least one IRC meeting to publicly discuss the bids, which has yet to be scheduled.
I'll ping the jury and make sure everyone's conscious of the deadlines. :)
Austin
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
2011/3/22 Alex Stinson stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu:
When/how should we expect feedback on our bid?
The jury's Q&A period begins right away, so keep an eye out for questions and comments on the bid's talk page. We'll also be having at least one IRC meeting to publicly discuss the bids, which has yet to be scheduled.
I'll ping the jury and make sure everyone's conscious of the deadlines. :)
Austin & bid team,
We already got one very helpful item of feedback on our talk page. (thanks SJ!) We look forward to more feedback.
We have listed several of our bid's weaknesses on our page. Feel free to identify additional weaknesses and we can give them more attention, explain what we are doing to address them, etc.
Cheers, Katie
Austin
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Great work to all of you! I regret that my school load and work load has kept me too busy to contribute as much as I has originally hoped.
I look forward to the results and hopefully I will be making time in my schedule for 2012 in DC.
-Sarah
Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :)
On Mar 22, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
2011/3/22 Alex Stinson stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu:
When/how should we expect feedback on our bid?
The jury's Q&A period begins right away, so keep an eye out for questions and comments on the bid's talk page. We'll also be having at least one IRC meeting to publicly discuss the bids, which has yet to be scheduled.
I'll ping the jury and make sure everyone's conscious of the deadlines. :)
Austin
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