Dear all,
I want to remind everyone to officially start a bid for the locale of Wikimania 2013. All bids made so far are *unofficial* and cannot be considered, as long as they are not in the list of official bids on this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
The possibility to make an official bid closes at ***January 28, 23:59 UTC***, this is in less than five days! So hurry up if you want Wikimania to happen at your place. :)
Note that you then have two more months to make your actual bid (and one more month to refine it). You don't need to have everything completely ready by now, so don't worry. :) For now, just create the bid page and list it under "Official bids". Please don't forget to list your organizing team members on the bid page. (All of them should enable their email function on the Meta wiki, so that we can reach all of you easily.)
On behalf of the jury Thomas. (User:Thogo)