Dear all,
The first deadline for Wikimania city is drawing to a close. As of today, I count only 3 cities running officially, which will, I must say, make it easier for the shortlist of 3 ;-), but which is sad because the "unofficial locations sound pretty good.
See here at the bottom of the page for more info : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Official_requirements_for_pote...
Well, if we have only three cities entering the contest, we might decide to shorten the last round to about a week and make a decision sometime next week.
I am waiting to hear from the "jury" about a possible time on Sunday 2nd October to have a chat/meeting with everyone involved, so please keep reading this list to know more about what time. It will be on irc on the #wikimania channel. The idea is to gather to ask questions about possible missing information, discuss difficulties and opportunities.
Stay tuned for more wikimania adventures.
Delphine PS. "Jury" will be composed of the Board of the Foundation, Elian, Akl, JeLuF, Austin, Sj and myself.
Cheers,
Delphine -- ~notafish
Now 4 cities! See the Boston bid here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Boston
I also like the looks of some of the unofficial locations...
As for the meeting, anytime tomorrow after 1400 UTC works for me.
Well, if we have only three cities entering the contest, we might decide to shorten the last round to about a week and make a decision sometime next week.
I think it would be alright to stick to the original schedule.
--SJ
Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote:
Did anyone think to create a log of this meeting or save it in some form?
The public shortlist meeting held Sunday night lasted a bit over an hour. During the meeting, there was private discussion among the jury members*, to reach consensus on the finalists.
You can see a log of the public chat here : http://hcs.harvard.edu/~sjklein/mania-meeting-log.txt
And the finalists here : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Boston http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Toronto
Both are exciting bids... it is a nice change to see major universities vying for association with Wikimedia projects. Next up: libraries vying to be official repositories of snapshots?
* So I was told. The original jury was set up before Boston was a candidate city. Now that I am the contact for Boston, I am not on the jury, nor involved with its private discussions.
++SJ
On 9/30/05, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
PS. "Jury" will be composed of the Board of the Foundation, Elian, Akl, JeLuF, Austin, Sj and myself.
On 10/4/05, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
- So I was told. The original jury was set up before Boston was a
candidate city. Now that I am the contact for Boston, I am not on the jury, nor involved with its private discussions.
We have agreed to let Andrew Lih ([[User:Fuzheado]]) join the jury, since he was also very much involved in the last wikimania, especially in the area where Sj had remarks to make, namely speakers and programme.
Cheers,
Delphine -- ~notafish
Absolutely no problem with me.
But who is "WE" ? and where and when was it agreed upon ?
Ant
--- Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/4/05, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
- So I was told. The original jury was set up
before Boston was a
candidate city. Now that I am the contact for
Boston, I am not on the
jury, nor involved with its private discussions.
We have agreed to let Andrew Lih ([[User:Fuzheado]]) join the jury, since he was also very much involved in the last wikimania, especially in the area where Sj had remarks to make, namely speakers and programme.
Cheers,
Delphine
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On 10/6/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
But who is "WE" ?
The Wikimania organising team.
and where and when was it agreed
upon ?
Yesterday, or the day before, by email.
Delphine -- ~notafish
Delphine Ménard wrote:
On 10/6/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
But who is "WE" ?
The Wikimania organising team.
and where and when was it agreed
upon ?
Yesterday, or the day before, by email.
Delphine
~notafish
Maybe you could put the name of the new team on wiki and inform people here. It is best to be transparent about who is going to take decisions about the event. Ihmo.
Ant (not part of the organising team, so just letting the wave gently carress her toes rather than getting over her head)
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