Dear all,
As promised, for Wikimania 2013[0] I hereby announce the Jury[1] to select the winning bid, and invite everyone to consider putting a bid[2] together:
== Jury == * [[User:80686|Manuel Schneider]] * [[User:Beria|Béria Lima]] * [[User:Deror avi|Deror Avi]] * [[User:Effeietsanders|Lodewijk Gelauff]] * [[User:Ilario|Ilario Salvatore Valdelli]] * [[User:Kiril Simeonovski|Kiril Simeonovski]] * [[User:Peteforsyth|Pete Forsyth]] * [[User:Philippe|Philippe Beaudette]] * [[User:Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington|Anirudh Bhati]] * [[User:Theo10011|Theo10011]] * [[User:Thogo|Thomas Goldammer]]
There are a further two individuals who I have asked to confirm that they are happy to serve on the Jury, and who I will add on-wiki if and when they confirm.
As in previous Juries, any Wikimania Foundation Board members may act as (non-voting) advisors to the Jury if they so choose. I know that Bishakha Datta and Phoebe Ayers have agreed to take on this role, and other Board members may join if they wish.
I will serve as a moderator (a neutral non-voting aide to the Jury), along with another individual who will hopefully confirm that this is OK with them later today.
Thank you for everyone who contacted me to nominate themselves, others, or give suggestions; the suggestions were very helpful, and I hope the resulting Jury will be a success.
== Invitation to bid ==
To re-iterate my comment in November, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia community would love to see as many good bids as possible. There are already a few bids[2] on Meta, but if you or your local community are thinking about putting one in, you need to get it started and in a reasonable state by the end of 28 January 2012 at the very latest[3].
Please also consider passing this message on (and translating it!) for your wiki's community forum for those that don't read these mailing lists.
Thank you, and good luck to all Bids.
[0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013 [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids [3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids/Timeline
Yours,
On 12 January 2012 19:52, James Forrester jdforrester@gmail.com wrote:
To re-iterate my comment in November, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia community would love to see as many good bids as possible. There are already a few bids[2] on Meta, but if you or your local community are thinking about putting one in, you need to get it started and in a reasonable state by the end of 28 January 2012 at the very latest[3].
Thank you for taking the initiative and getting things moving with this. What do you mean by "in a reasonable state" in the above? The page on meta only says you need to have created a page added your city to the list by then and doesn't suggest that the page needs to have any significant content by then.
On 12 January 2012 20:03, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 January 2012 19:52, James Forrester jdforrester@gmail.com wrote:
To re-iterate my comment in November, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia community would love to see as many good bids as possible. There are already a few bids[2] on Meta, but if you or your local community are thinking about putting one in, you need to get it started and in a reasonable state by the end of 28 January 2012 at the very latest[3].
Thank you for taking the initiative and getting things moving with this. What do you mean by "in a reasonable state" in the above? The page on meta only says you need to have created a page added your city to the list by then and doesn't suggest that the page needs to have any significant content by then.
It's general practice for Juries to make a very quick judgement about a bid to see if it's one that has a serious prospect (sometimes they are placed in jest). It's not previously been a high bar in any way. However, that is of course for the Jury to decide and they may not follow this practice.
Yours,
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