[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2009 - deadline PRIVATE

[Birgitte SB]

You should annouce to WMF that your bid will be
withdrawn if not accepted by a certain date.  If you
could get Toronto to agree to do this as a united
front it would be even better.  

That is what I would do in your place.

Birgitte SB

--- Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear friends:
> 
>                         We are writting this email
> in behalf of
> Wikimedia Argentina, to tell you about our concern
> because of the lack
> of news about the jury decision and even about when
> this decision may
> be taken.
> 
>                         This is not just a personal
> concern and is not
>  only caused by an understandable anxiety: we are
> being requested from
> potential sponsors and media and we are delaying
> this meetings because
> we don't know what to tell them. The worst thing is
> that we can't tell
> them at least when are we going to know the
> decision. The Director of
> our proposed venue is pushing us to define if we are
> going to use it
> or not, because they need to set the 2009 agenda.
> And so on. We think
> the Toronto team may have the same problems.
> 
>                         The last deadline finished
> twelve days ago,
> and since then we had no news. We don't want to
> disturb nor to hurry
> up the jury discussion, but it would be of great
> help if the jury
> could establish a final date. If this is done, at
> least part of the
> uncertainty will disappear.
> 
>                         Thanks,
> 
>                                        Patricio
> Lorente Presidente
>                                        Enrique
> Chaparro (Vicepresidente)
>                                        Wikimedia
> Argentina
> 
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