[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations

[Harel Cain]

I'd just like to be the bad guy and repeat my suggestion expressed in the
past in this list and on wikimania-planning-l that in the future Wikimania
be held every two years. The no-Wikimania years could possibly be devoted
to regional conferences, smaller in scope and cheaper to produce.

Producing a very good bid for a constantly-expanding and improving
conference, every time in another place, is a task we won't be able to
support over time.


Harel Cain
Wikimedia Israel

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 21:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janbart at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Disclaimer: this is my personal opinion, and in no way represents any
> sentiments of the board.
>
> That being said
>
> In the past years I have seen a lot of people spend a lot of time on
> different bids which never made it (even though they were pretty good).
> Could this be the year that we change this procedure and try to do things
> differently? I would love to explore how we can avoid a lot of people
> wasting their energy...
>
> How about taking a little time to look at these and other imperfects of
> the current system before jumping right in, and trying to see if we can
> improve it?
>
> Jan-Bart
>
>
>
> On 23 nov. 2011, at 19:47, James Forrester wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > It's getting towards the end of November, which means it is time to
> > run the Wikimania bidding process for 2013[0].
> >
> > Given the traditional absence of a formal system, I'm putting myself
> > forward as Jury[1] co-ordinator - a non-voting person who helps the
> > Jury form and Bids get started up, sets the timeline[2], and hopefully
> > makes sure everything happens smoothly.
> >
> > In this role, I would like to make two requests:
> >
> > Firstly, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia community would love to see as
> > many good bids as possible. There are already a few bids[3] on Meta,
> > but if you or your local community are thinking about putting one in,
> > I'd urge you to get started now - there's not much time left before
> > new bids will not be accepted. Making a good bid for Wikimania can be
> > a lot of work, but we all benefit from there being a strong field of
> > bids.
> >
> >
> > Secondly, I would like to invite volunteers to serve on the Wikimania
> > 2013 jury. There is a list of general requirements on Meta[4], but to
> > summarise:
> >
> > * The Jury will have some from the Wikimedia Foundation's Board and
> > staff alongside the community volunteers;
> > * You can't be on the Jury if you're closely involved in a Bid (it's a
> > conflict of interest);
> > * You need to have some free time during the selection period
> (January-March);
> > * We want to represent the community across the different projects and
> > activities; and
> > * We of course want a mix of people from a diverse range of
> > backgrounds, sexes, cultures and regions of the world.
> >
> > If you wish to be involved in the Jury, please e-mail me (off-list) at
> > jdforrester at gmail.com - I hope we can announce the Jury in the first
> > week of December, so please contact me as soon as you can.
> >
> >
> > Please also consider passing this message on (and translating it!) for
> > your wiki's community forum for those that don't read these mailing
> > lists.
> >
> > Thank you, and good luck to all Bids.
> >
> > [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
> > [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Jury
> > [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Bids/Timeline
> > [3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Bids
> > [4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_jury
> >
> > Yours,
> > --
> > James D. Forrester
> > jdforrester at wikimedia.org | jdforrester at gmail.com
> > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
> >
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