Congratulations from good old Wikimania 2009 ;) Best, galio
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Butch Bustria <bu...@wikimedia.org.ph>wrote: > Hello HK Team, > > In behalf of the Philippine Chapter (and your other Asian brothers and > sister chapters), we congratulate you for having a successful bid. > > We hope we could bring many Filipinos there as we are just two hours apart > by plane. > > We are also hoping the lessons from the Israel and DC hosting would help > you bring a better and more colorful event in August 2013. > > P.S. I hope you can open the scholarships as early as mid-December to > enable you to have a better time screening all applicants and announce it > in March so that participants would have a hassle free planning of their > iterinaries and for some -- visa applications. > > > -- > Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr. > Wikimedia Philippines Inc. > > ------------------------------ > > > The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only > for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the > intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or > the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this > message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the > original message and attachments. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu) < > jerry.tschan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Halo Everyone >> >> (Firstly, short statement on behalf the team) >> >> Thank you for your congratulations, we honored that we are awarded to >> host the 9th global Wikimedia Conference. >> our team will work as best as we can, to facilitate such conference, and >> meet your expectations. >> >> and we are lOOking forward to seeing you here in Hong Kong, and hope you >> will enjoy the conference! >> >> >> (then a longer part of personal thoughts) >> >> I recently read a story on Facebook: >> Once upon a time, a boy behave badly in school, with very poor results >> and his teacher told his father about the situation. >> >> Then the father tell his kids, if the boy can get 0 mark in the exam >> then the boy can do whatever he wants >> >> But the boy found his way to get 0 marks, but actually he learnt all the >> correct answer in order to write down the wrong answer >> Then his father told him, actually the boy actually can finishes his >> school works with flying colors >> >> <end of story> >> >> Actually the Hong Kong bid was similar situations, >> even you ask me about the possibility having a Wikimania in Hong Kong >> I would tell you that's impossible. >> >> Even when we start to "explore the possibility to have a Wikimania in HK" >> I personally thinks that would be a process proving it is impossible >> >> but more and more supports comes, more volunteers willing to helps. >> >> Our fellow local team really fights bit and bit for support, >> that's why they are so eager to get the bid, >> because we all know that is not really easy to have such support >> especially for group with almost every organizer is so young :) >> >> >> Well, there is still a lot things to be done ahead >> so better end my note here, and get back to work! >> >> A BIG thank you to everyone involved in the bidding process, especially >> to all the bidding teams! >> >> >> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Katie Chan <k...@ktchan.info> wrote: >> >>> Congratulation Hong Kong! I'll be there. :) >>> >>> -- >>> Experience is a good school but the fees are high. >>> - Heinrich Heine >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeromy-Yu Chan, Jerry >> http://yuyu.be/txt >> http://about.me/jeromyu >> UID: Jeromyu >> (on Facebook, Twitter, Plurk & most sites) >> >> >> Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601 >> Οὔτε τι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἄξιον ὂν μεγάλης σπουδῆς >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > > -- > Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr. > Wikimedia Philippines Inc. > > ------------------------------ > > > The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only > for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the > intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or > the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this > message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the > original message and attachments. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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