I'm seriously having doubts why this is becoming such a drama for some people. There's a clear process (the Wikimania committee selects a jury, which selects a winning bid to be confirmed by the WMF) and they asked for volunteers, which they selected a jury from. Yay.
Because lets face it, being on the jury is a boring task and little fun. Why are you (plural) trying so hard to make it even less fun...
These are indeed assertions, and I agree to focus on responding to factual questions instead.
So again: Thanks for spending all this effort and time!
Lodewijk
2014-09-30 14:35 GMT+02:00 Fæ faewik@gmail.com:
On 29 September 2014 15:53, Ellie Young eyoung@wikimedia.org wrote:
We have a system that works for jury selection. What I would STRONGLY
like to encourage people in the community to do is seek out prospective people who would be good hosts and work with me on preparing a bid. That is is our biggest need! The CFP was posted earlier this month.
Perhaps it would be easier to respond to assertions rather than direct questions, such as those posted yesterday by Béria. If anyone is aware of why these assertions are incorrect, perhaps they would be kind enough to link to where we can see how things work? Note, the Wikimania jury is not elected, it is selected by the "Wikimania Steering Committee".
Assertion: The Steering Committee is not required to be transparent in its selection criteria. Assertion: The Steering Committee has no published process or policies.[1] Assertion: The Steering Committee is directed by WMF employees.[1] Assertion: At least 5/7 of Wikimania 2016 jury members have been employees of the WMF or Wikimedia Chapters.
Links
P.S. "CFP" as used by Ellie, stands for Call for Participation.
Fae
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