[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

[Jayanta Nath]

Congratulation to everyone!

Jayanta


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Florence Devouard <anthere9 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear all
>
> The committee met this evening and is happy to announce that it chose its
> jury.
>
> We received many applications (11 from new candidates) and it was really
> tough to choose from all the great people.
>
> We decided to create a jury of 9 members including 4 "oldbies" (= previous
> Wikimania jury experience), 4 "newbies" plus 1 WMF staff member.
>
> Accordingly, the following people are welcome to form the future jury
> selecting Wikimania 2015 bid.
>
> * Orsolya Gyenes
> * Manuel Schneider
> * Deror Avi
> * Jeromy-Yu Chan
> * Netha Hussain
> * Victoria Levant
> * Richard Sydmonds
> * Ralf Roletschek
> * Ellie Young
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_jury
>
> We would like to thank all candidates. Individual emails will be send to
> all candidates.
>
> Thanks
>
> Anthere
>
>
>
> On 11/2/13 12:44 AM, James Forrester wrote:
>
>> Forwarding for info.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: James Forrester <jdforrester at gmail.com>
>> Date: 1 November 2013 18:43
>> Subject: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers
>> To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
>> wikimania-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Soon we will be kicking off the selection process for deciding where we
>> will hold Wikimania 2015[0].
>>
>> The Requests for Proposals (RfP) is being written right now[1], and will
>> be
>> coming out soon, but in this e-mail we would like to invite volunteers to
>> serve on the selection jury[2]. The jury will select the winning bid based
>> on published criteria, reviewing the bids from January onwards until the
>> final selection is made in April 2014.
>>
>> This is roughly 30-40 hours' work, and is key to us making Wikimania a
>> strong, healthy community conference that we all can enjoy. The Wikimania
>> Committee will select a jury that is a balanced representation of the
>> community, from a diverse range of backgrounds, sexes, languages, cultures
>> and regions of the world.
>>
>> The main criteria are as follows:
>>
>> * You want to help make Wikimania as great a celebration of the community
>> as we can make it;
>> * You can represent some of the Wikimedia community's varied projects and
>> activities;
>> * You have some experience of community events, meetings, conferences, or
>> want to learn;
>> * You have some free time during the selection period, especially late
>> March and early April; and
>> * You are not closely involved in any bid (it's a conflict of interest).
>>
>> If you would like to serve on the jury, please e-mail Florence Devouard
>> (off-list) [[Wikipedia:User:Anthere]] at fdevouard @ wikimedia.org by 12
>> November. We will announce the jury in two weeks' time.
>>
>> Please help us by translating this message and passing it on to your
>> wiki's
>> community for those that don't read these mailing lists.
>>
>> Thank you, and good luck to all Bids.
>>
>> [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015
>> [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids
>> [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_jury
>>
>> On behalf of the Wikimania Committee.
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>>
>
>
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