Dear Adethya,
Adding James to the conversation because he can explain this better. Also, here is an open call that James did send out for jury volunteers on 10th February :http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikimania/333694?do=post_view_thr...
As for me, I could tell you how I came on board. I was approached by Deror Avi from Israel and his rationale was to have a wider representation (people from Asia, women, some experience with organizing events). I hope that answers your question :)
Best,
Noopur
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:13:46 +0530, Adethya Sudarsanan wrote:
Hey Noopur,
Can anyone be a part of the jury? is the call still open? Jus
curious.
-Ade. S
On 18 February 2013 10:07, Noopur wrote:
Dear all, FYI. The jury list is out. Achal, Konarak and I are a
part of it. There are only two bids so far. Arusha and London.
Thanks
Noopur
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DATE: February 18, 2013, 5:14:09 AM GMT+05:30 TO:
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All,
For info.
Yours,
James.
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Date: 17 February 2013 15:40 Subject: Announcement of Wikimania
2014 jury
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"
[Please note that I send this purely as a volunteer, and in no
connexion to the Wikimedia Foundation.]
Dear all,
I
write to announce the Jury to select which bid will be chosen to
host Wikimania in 2014.
The twelve members will be:
Deror Avi - [[User:Deror avi]] from Israel (Wikimania 2011 General Manager)
- Philippe Beaudette - [[User:Philippe (WMF)]] from the US
(Wikimedia
Foundation Director, Community Advocacy)
- Jeromy-Yu
Chan - [[User:Yuyu]] from HK (Wikimania 2013 Co-ordinator-in-Chief)
* Shujen Chang - [[User:Shujenchang]] from HK
- Florence Devouard -
[[User:Anthere]] from France
- Orsolya Gyenes -
[[User:OrsolyaVirág]] from Hungary (Wikimania 2012
Deputy Program
Chair)
- James Hare - [[User:Harej]] from the US (Wikimania 2012
Co-chair)
- Achal Prabhala - [[User:Aprabhala]] from India -
Wikimedia Advisory
Board member
- Konarak Ratnakar -
[[User:Kondicherry]] from India
- Noopur Raval - [[User:Noopur28]]
from India
- Manuel Schneider - [[User:80686]] from Austria
(Wikimedia
Österreich; perpetual Wikimania organiser)
[[User:Whiteghost.ink]] from Australia
Jan-Bart de Vreede and
Sam Klein (of the Wikimedia Foundation Board)
will also be part of
the Jury, as normal.
I and Phoebe Ayers - [[User:Phoebe]] -
will be serving as moderators,
neutral aides for the Jury who do not
vote.
To re-iterate what we've said before, it would be lovely
if this was
the last year we used this process, and that for 2015
onwards we could
create a new, community-led and more open and
transparent process.
Some earlier discussions took place at
[[m:Talk:Wikimania Advisory
Group]]. Please feel free to give your
thoughts there.
As a reminder, bids have two weeks (until 23:59
UTC on 3 March 2013)
until bidding creation closes. All cities which
intend to run for the
bidding process should have created a page on
meta and entered the
official list by this point.
Thank
you, and good luck to all Bids.
Yours,
James D.
Forrester
jdforrester@gmail.com [7]
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