Congratulations to the winning bid ! Its amazing to see all the hard work all the cities put in their bids!
And a thanks to James and all the jury members for once again going through an intensive process to reach a decision! Jan-Bart On 3 mei 2012, at 01:52, James Forrester <jdforres...@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 > jdforres...@wikimedia.org | jdforres...@gmail.com > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
