[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012 Awarded to Washington, DC

[Theo10011]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:24 AM, aude <aude.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM, James Owen <jowen at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> The Wikimania jury are pleased to announce that they have selected
>> Washington, D.C.,
>
>
> Thank you James and all jury members for the valuable feedback in the Q&A
> process.
>
> We're happy to take additional feedback and work hard to make it a super
> fabulous event!
>
> Cheers,
> Katie (@aude)
>
>
>
>> USA as the location for Wikimania 2012[0]. The DC team presented an
>> imaginative and exciting bid[1] that the jurors found impressive. As before,
>> all the bids to host Wikimania had strong points in their favour and making
>> this decision was difficult. We will send detailed feedback to each of the
>> bids, but for now we know the winning team will appreciate the community's
>> support and help in making a great Wikimania in 2012. The jury particularly
>> thanks the other finalist in the process, the South African team[2] for
>> their excellent work, and encourages them to bid again in the near future.
>>
>> If you have never been to a Wikimania before I would urge you to consider
>> attending. This year the conference will be in Haifa, Israel[3], and
>> promises to be an excellent event. Wikimania is always a great way to meet
>> members of our global community and help improve the movement, and
>> Washington DC looks to be a worthy successor.
>>
>> Our congratulations to the Washington DC team and many thanks to all of
>> the bidders for working so hard. I encourage all bidders to use the
>> fantastic energy they have put into their bids by hosting smaller
>> continental or regional events, and considering another bid for Wikimania in
>> the future.
>>
>> The jury welcomes looks forward to discussing the result and the Wikimania
>> process with the community.
>>
>> [0] Jury, process&  timeline:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012
>> [1] DC bid:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C.
>> [2] SA bid:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Stellenbosch
>> [3] Wikimania 2011:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> The Wikimania 2012 jury moderators [non-voting]
>> * James Forrester
>> * Joseph Seddon
>>
>> On behalf of the Wikimania 2012 jury:
>> * Ting Chen
>> * Austin Hair
>> * Richard Knipel
>> * Deror Lin
>> * Patricio Lorente
>> * Abbas Mahmoud
>> * Takashi Ota
>> * James Owen
>> * Achal Prabhala
>> * Liam Wyatt
>>
>> * Phoebe Ayers [non-voting advisor]
>> * Sue Gardner [non-voting advisor]
>> * Samuel Klein [non-voting advisor]
>> * Delphine Menard [non-voting advisor]
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Congratulations to the Washington DC team.


Theo
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