On 26 December 2011 23:26, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
(for the record, because there seems to be some confusion: I think it would be good to have clearity on the timeline, but I don't agree that there is an urgency to announce the jury soon - if the quality of the jury is improved by waiting a bit because we're short of candidates or any other random reason, I'm all for taking a little extra time.)
OK, well, given the lack of movement on this issue[0], and given some discussion here, on wiki and on IRC, I propose to proceed with the plan and announce a Jury for Wikimania 2013 later today/tomorrow.
My idea is that the 2013 selection will happen under the current rules[1], and that we (in parallel) try to work out properly how we as a community want the meta-level decisions like "how do we decide who gets Wikimania each year?" and "just what do we want Wikimania to be anyway?". Certainly I hope that we have decided this by the time many of us meet in Washington DC this (Northern hemisphere) Summer!
Yours,
[0] - There's https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group which looks like it could work out in the next few months, but not with enough time to get Wikimania 2013 properly sorted out with a decent space of time.
[1] - Honestly, if you've never organised a Wikimania, it's astonishing just how much work is involved; giving the team just over a year can be very demanding - this is something I'd love for the "Wikimania Advisory Group" or whatever to help simplify.
James