[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2009 - deadline

[phoebe ayers]

Patricio (and the rest of the bid team),

On behalf of the jury and moderators, I am very sorry it has taken so
long. My apologies also for not sending out a note to the bid teams
letting you know about the delay. As has been the case the last three
years, the bids are *very* strong and the jury has had a lot to
consider and discuss (as anyone who has followed all the various
Wikimania discussions the last few years can imagine!)

We are working on a decision announcement now, and I hope to post it soon.

-- Phoebe

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:30 AM, 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
>