Many congratulations to the London bid team! London will be a great venue,
and see you all here next summer :-)
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Congratulations to the London team for your successful
bid and to the
Arusha team for putting in a solid effort! I look forward to getting my UK
groove on next year.
-greg aka varnent
On 1 May 2013, at 1:28 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations to the London team, and great
work on all parties for
proposals. It's quite a task, and one that is at times just as emotional
and intensive in actually planning Wikimania.
I look forward to lending a hand with London, and I really look forward
to
partying at the Tate Modern ;) (Can we get
Kraftwerk to play the
party...?[1])
Sarah
[1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLVvju6WZ8
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:10 AM, James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
On behalf of the Wikimania 2014 selection Jury, after review and
evaluation of the two final bids, we have awarded the conference to
London. Congratulations to the London team, and to the Arusha team who
also put forward a solid effort.
We were concerned this year to see that both bidding teams put forward
proposals which were costly and complicated, in contrast to the
Wikimania tradition. The Jury briefly considered re-opening the bid
for other teams, and asked both bids to present a simpler core budget
and lower-cost options for attendees.
The London team took our comments to heart and decreased their core
budget to 20% of their initial proposal, and have committed to finding
ways to reduce the cost for community attendees.
We encourage future bidding teams to not give up their dreams, to keep
aiming for the stars, but at the same time, to not forget the spirit
of Wikimedia: a volunteer movement that makes creative use of limited
resources. We look forward to the proposed Wikimania Committee setting
out clearer guidelines on these principles.
The process to bid for hosting Wikimania requires a substantial time
investment, and we thank both candidate teams for their submissions
and hard work.
Yours,
James Forrester
Moderator, Wikimania 2014 Jury
For the Wikimania 2014 Jury
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James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
capacity)
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