[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

[Nurunnaby Chowdhury]

Congrtz Hong kong team!

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Mateus Nobre <mateusfnobre at gmail.com>wrote:

> Awesome!!!
>
> Congratulations!
> Hope to be there.
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:52 PM, James Forrester <jdforrester at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
> > that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
> > the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
> > excellent job.
> >
> > There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
> > as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
> > bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
> > determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
> > and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
> > e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
> > staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
> >
> > The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
> > required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
> > considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
> > following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
> > Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
> > We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
> > because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
> > Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
> > organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
> > good combination of venue and accommodation.
> >
> > The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
> > a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
> > to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
> > have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
> > partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
> > found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
> > identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
> > share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
> > use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
> > other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
> > year.
> >
> > We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
> > very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
> > their submissions.
> >
> > To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
> > the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
> > this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
> > everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
> > select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
> > Please, do join in the discussions.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > James Forrester
> > Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
> > For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
> >
> > [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
> > [3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
> > [4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
> > --
> > James D. Forrester
> > jdforrester at wikimedia.org | jdforrester at gmail.com
> > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
> >
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