[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2009 - deadline PRIVATE

Birgitte SB birgitte_sb at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 25 20:17:14 UTC 2008


I meant to send that privately because I haven't been
participating on this list.  Luclikly it is fit for
public comsumption :) 

Birgitte SB

--- Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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 withdrawn if not accepted by a certain date.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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> >
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> > 
> 
> 
> 
>      
>
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