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 Begin forwarded message: *From:* James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com> *Date:* February 18, 2013, 5:14:09 AM GMT+05:30 *To:* "wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> *Subject:* *[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury* *Reply-To:* Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> All, For info. Yours, James. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com> Date: 17 February 2013 15:40 Subject: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> [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(a)gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) -- James D. Forrester jdforrester(a)gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l