Congratulations to the Washington DC team. Your Q&A session was excited ... I cannot wait for the next year.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:54 AM, aude <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM, James Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> The Wikimania jury are pleased to announce that they have selected >> Washington, D.C., > > Thank you James and all jury members for the valuable feedback in the Q&A > process. > > We're happy to take additional feedback and work hard to make it a super > fabulous event! > > Cheers, > Katie (@aude) > > >> >> USA as the location for Wikimania 2012[0]. The DC team presented an >> imaginative and exciting bid[1] that the jurors found impressive. As before, >> all the bids to host Wikimania had strong points in their favour and making >> this decision was difficult. We will send detailed feedback to each of the >> bids, but for now we know the winning team will appreciate the community's >> support and help in making a great Wikimania in 2012. The jury particularly >> thanks the other finalist in the process, the South African team[2] for >> their excellent work, and encourages them to bid again in the near future. >> >> If you have never been to a Wikimania before I would urge you to consider >> attending. This year the conference will be in Haifa, Israel[3], and >> promises to be an excellent event. Wikimania is always a great way to meet >> members of our global community and help improve the movement, and >> Washington DC looks to be a worthy successor. >> >> Our congratulations to the Washington DC team and many thanks to all of >> the bidders for working so hard. I encourage all bidders to use the >> fantastic energy they have put into their bids by hosting smaller >> continental or regional events, and considering another bid for Wikimania in >> the future. >> >> The jury welcomes looks forward to discussing the result and the Wikimania >> process with the community. >> >> [0] Jury, process& timeline:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012 >> [1] DC >> bid:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C. >> [2] SA bid: >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Stellenbosch >> [3] Wikimania 2011:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011 >> >> Yours, >> >> The Wikimania 2012 jury moderators [non-voting] >> * James Forrester >> * Joseph Seddon >> >> On behalf of the Wikimania 2012 jury: >> * Ting Chen >> * Austin Hair >> * Richard Knipel >> * Deror Lin >> * Patricio Lorente >> * Abbas Mahmoud >> * Takashi Ota >> * James Owen >> * Achal Prabhala >> * Liam Wyatt >> >> * Phoebe Ayers [non-voting advisor] >> * Sue Gardner [non-voting advisor] >> * Samuel Klein [non-voting advisor] >> * Delphine Menard [non-voting advisor] >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
