Patricio (and the rest of the bid team), On behalf of the jury and moderators, I am very sorry it has taken so long. My apologies also for not sending out a note to the bid teams letting you know about the delay. As has been the case the last three years, the bids are *very* strong and the jury has had a lot to consider and discuss (as anyone who has followed all the various Wikimania discussions the last few years can imagine!)
We are working on a decision announcement now, and I hope to post it soon. -- Phoebe On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Patricio Lorente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear friends: > > We are writting this email in behalf of > Wikimedia Argentina, to tell you about our concern because of the lack > of news about the jury decision and even about when this decision may > be taken. > > This is not just a personal concern and is not > only caused by an understandable anxiety: we are being requested from > potential sponsors and media and we are delaying this meetings because > we don't know what to tell them. The worst thing is that we can't tell > them at least when are we going to know the decision. The Director of > our proposed venue is pushing us to define if we are going to use it > or not, because they need to set the 2009 agenda. And so on. We think > the Toronto team may have the same problems. > > The last deadline finished twelve days ago, > and since then we had no news. We don't want to disturb nor to hurry > up the jury discussion, but it would be of great help if the jury > could establish a final date. If this is done, at least part of the > uncertainty will disappear. > > Thanks, > > Patricio Lorente Presidente > Enrique Chaparro (Vicepresidente) > Wikimedia Argentina > _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
