Congratulation to everyone! Jayanta
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Florence Devouard <anthe...@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 <jdforres...@gmail.com> >> Date: 1 November 2013 18:43 >> Subject: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers >> To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < >> wikimani...@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, >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>