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

[Pete Forsyth]

Works great for me, James -- glad for the update, and I personally think
that at this point, almost any clear path forward is better than continuing
to wonder. I'm sure you'll do fine with picking a jury :)

Good luck getting through the RL work too!
-Pete


On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:20 AM, James Forrester <james at jdforrester.org>wrote:

> On 10 January 2012 06:53, Manuel Schneider
> <manuel.schneider at wikimedia.ch> wrote:
> > On 10.01.2012 00:49, Deryck Chan wrote:
> >> It's been another few days into January. Has the jury been selected yet?
> >
> > well, who is "selecting" the jury?
> >
> > So far as I know this is a community process, so everyone with a plan
> > could come up and take this into her / his hand.
> >
> > I am hesitant because James Forrester already started to ask potential
> > jury members and engaged in setting up the process, so it looked like he
> > had the plan for 2013 at least and I don't want to mess with the work he
> > has already done.
> >
> > So it would be good if he could give us a short update what he plans to
> > do or if someone else could / should take over.
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> Really sorry for the delay in this. A bunch of issues around this (and
> IRL workload) have delayed me hugely; my apologies.
>
> I propose to just charge ahead and announce a Jury in an hour's time
> or so; I've tried my best to balance it (in the same way that we did
> in previous years), which is not perfect - not by a long shot - but
> gets us:
>
> (a) a Jury in place to make a decision in the next couple of months so
> that 2013 bids can actually happen, and
>
> (b) gives us a really good reason for this to be the last-ever Jury
> created in this way, as I said on 30 December; I really don't want
> this to be the process for 2014 (even if I dump this part on someone
> else).
>
> I hope this meets with everyone's approval (OK, the majority's
> acceptance - asking for mass approval is perhaps too much!).
>
> Yours,
> --
> James D. Forrester
> jdforrester at wikimedia.org | jdforrester at gmail.com
> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
>
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