FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "James Forrester" jdforrester@gmail.com Date: Feb 18, 2013 1:44 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury To: "wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org" wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc:

All,

For info.

Yours,

James.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Forrester jdforrester@gmail.com Date: 17 February 2013 15:40 Subject: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" wikimania-l@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@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity)

-- James D. Forrester jdforrester@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity)

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