Hi Filip, I would recommend directing these inquiries to Ellie Young (cc'd here). I have heard talk of process changes for future Wikimanias but have yet to hear of final decisions, or even of a public consultation, so it may be that the process changes are a work in progress.
Pine On Sep 30, 2015 2:02 PM, "Filip Maljkovic" <dungod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I noticed on [1] that we're a bit behind schedule when it comes to > Wikimania 2017. > > The Wikimania 2017 jury call for volunteers should have gone in August, > but I don't think one was sent (or at least I missed it). September 2015 is > the time when jury selection should be announced (which can hardly be done > if there was no public call for jury members), and also the bidding is > supposed to open. I see two unofficial bids so far: Bali and Perth. The > former is filled with "Lorem ipsum" text and the latter is just plain empty. > > Did we forget about Wikimania 2017? Do we still want it? Who is in charge > of this process? Is this timeline accurate (since the only edit on that > page was done by a non-WMF person; however, the process corresponds to the > one from 2014 in terms of the timeline)? Is there an underlying problem > that is causing bidding fatigue (since there are no valid bids so far)? Is > it too early to go into this process altogether (and am I just being too > dramatic)? > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2017 > > Cheers, > Filip Maljković > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
