<div dir="auto">On a conversation with ViswaPrabha he confirmed that he got visa rejection from Canadian embessy so can't participate in this wikimania. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">He is holding a Canadian passport but got bad. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Very sad to hear this.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28-Jul-2017 3:50 AM, "Ellie Young" <<a href="mailto:eyoung@wikimedia.org">eyoung@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We have a waitlist from the original pool of people who made it into Phase 2 consideration by the Scholarship committee. Those people were notified that they might be offered a scholarship as late as mid-July. We have filled the people who couldn't attend for whatever reason after they accepted the scholarship offer with names from there.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Ellie</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">WMF Event Manager</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:48 AM, Rehman Abubakr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rehman.wikimedia@live.com" target="_blank">rehman.wikimedia@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Excuse me for the blunt question. But are there any shortlisted candidates this time?</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">A fellow Wikimedian asked me this, and I though I might as well ask the same on this thread.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">I'm sure there would be a lot of genuinely interested Wikimedians who would like to attend the conference, in lieu of the sheer number of rejected applicants. (with respect to the successful applicants who would not be able
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(117,123,128)">Thanks and regards,</span></p>
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