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, -- James D. Forrester jdforrester@wikimedia.org | jdforrester@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
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On 13 January 2012 12:36, Naveen Francis naveenpf@gmail.com wrote:
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:
Nice! Hopefully being on the jury does not disqualify allied Chapter's from bidding?
Go WMIN!
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam ________ http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html
Iv been following this for some time now - afaik, an Indian bid for 2013 will stand a strong chance. 2012 is going to take place in the US and there is an unwritten rule for holding it in different continents each year (though there is no compulsion, this has been followed so far) and with India being a focus area for WMF, things look bright.
However, the major factor is putting together a '''Strong''' local team - which I dont see at the moment, which makes things difficult. @ WCI 11 we were sorely short of hands. Lots of people gave "advice", but when it came down to actually doing things, hardly anyone came forward.
From: gautam@prathambooks.org Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:40:27 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 - Announcement of Jury and invitation to bid
On 13 January 2012 12:36, Naveen Francis naveenpf@gmail.com wrote:
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:
Nice! Hopefully being on the jury does not disqualify allied Chapter's from bidding?
Go WMIN!
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam ________ http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html
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+1 to Pranav's comment on lack of a local team. The main problem as I see in India will be the distance and hence someone in Delhi can't really be of much help to someone in Bombay. While you guys set up a local team and figure out logistical details, may I please suggest that you consider these aspects?
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:11 PM, wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com wrote:
Iv been following this for some time now - afaik, an Indian bid for 2013 will stand a strong chance. 2012 is going to take place in the US and there is an unwritten rule for holding it in different continents each year (though there is no compulsion, this has been followed so far) and with India being a focus area for WMF, things look bright.
However, the major factor is putting together a '''Strong''' local team - which I dont see at the moment, which makes things difficult. @ WCI 11 we were sorely short of hands. Lots of people gave "advice", but when it came down to actually doing things, hardly anyone came forward.
From: gautam@prathambooks.org Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:40:27 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 -
Announcement of Jury and invitation to bid
On 13 January 2012 12:36, Naveen Francis naveenpf@gmail.com wrote:
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:
Nice! Hopefully being on the jury does not disqualify allied Chapter's from bidding?
Go WMIN!
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam ________ http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 13:39, Noopur noopur.raval@gmail.com wrote:
+1 to Pranav's comment on lack of a local team. The main problem as I see in India will be the distance and hence someone in Delhi can't really be of much help to someone in Bombay.
While local team is one thing. There were still lot of things that people could have done sitting elsewhere. Beria did some amazing work with keeping up the portal and posting messages, she was not even in India. There were many others from many cities and few countries who made this conference happen, in the sense it was not just "Mumbai community" but some "location agnostic wikipedian community" that pulled the event off together. The problem with WCI was both lack of local as well as online volunteers and it was not like people weren't there. They were very much happy in giving advice on the list(the archives can speak for itself). So when the emphasis on "Strong local team" was made by Pranav, it must be read as having a large enough community of "Do-ers" than "talkers" for the scale of event. I strongly don't foresee the next edition of WCI happening in 2012, leave alone Wikimania 2013.
Thanks for reminding me indirectly, Srikanth, to give Beria a barnstar for WCI 2011.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 13:39, Noopur noopur.raval@gmail.com wrote:
+1 to Pranav's comment on lack of a local team. The main problem as I see in India will be the distance and hence someone in Delhi can't really be of much help to someone in Bombay.
While local team is one thing. There were still lot of things that people could have done sitting elsewhere. Beria did some amazing work with keeping up the portal and posting messages, she was not even in India. There were many others from many cities and few countries who made this conference happen, in the sense it was not just "Mumbai community" but some "location agnostic wikipedian community" that pulled the event off together. The problem with WCI was both lack of local as well as online volunteers and it was not like people weren't there. They were very much happy in giving advice on the list(the archives can speak for itself). So when the emphasis on "Strong local team" was made by Pranav, it must be read as having a large enough community of "Do-ers" than "talkers" for the scale of event. I strongly don't foresee the next edition of WCI happening in 2012, leave alone Wikimania 2013.
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A big +1 to everything Srikanth mentioned.
From: srik.lak@gmail.com Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:56:14 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 - Announcement of Jury and invitation to bid
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 13:39, Noopur noopur.raval@gmail.com wrote:
+1 to Pranav's comment on lack of a local team. The main problem as I see in India will be the distance and hence someone in Delhi can't really be of much help to someone in Bombay.
While local team is one thing. There were still lot of things that people could have done sitting elsewhere. Beria did some amazing work with keeping up the portal and posting messages, she was not even in India. There were many others from many cities and few countries who made this conference happen, in the sense it was not just "Mumbai community" but some "location agnostic wikipedian community" that pulled the event off together. The problem with WCI was both lack of local as well as online volunteers and it was not like people weren't there. They were very much happy in giving advice on the list(the archives can speak for itself). So when the emphasis on "Strong local team" was made by Pranav, it must be read as having a large enough community of "Do-ers" than "talkers" for the scale of event. I strongly don't foresee the next edition of WCI happening in 2012, leave alone Wikimania 2013.
-- Regards Srikanth.L
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