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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong     Kong
     (stephen wanjau)
  2. Re: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania
     2013: Hong Kong (Katie Chan)
  3. Re: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania
     2013: Hong Kong (Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu))
  4. Re: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania
     2013: Hong Kong (Butch Bustria)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 10:28:44 +0300
From: stephen wanjau <stevewanjau <at> wikimedia.or.ke>
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Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania
       2013: Hong      Kong
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Congratulations to Hong Kong.

This year it will be in the West and the next in the East.

//Stephen

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mateus Nobre <mateusfnobre <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Awesome!!!
>
> Congratulations!
> Hope to be there.
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:52 PM, James Forrester <jdforrester <at> 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
>> jdforrester <at> wikimedia.org | jdforrester <at> gmail.com
>> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 08:45:19 +0100
From: Katie Chan <ktc <at> ktchan.info>
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Congratulation Hong Kong! I'll be there. :)

--
Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
    - Heinrich Heine



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Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 18:34:36 +0800
From: "Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu)" <jerry.tschan.yu <at> gmail.com>
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       Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong
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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 <ktc <at> ktchan.info> wrote:

> Congratulation Hong Kong! I'll be there. :)
>
> --
> Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
>    - Heinrich Heine
>
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 19:17:34 +0800
From: Butch Bustria <butch <at> wikimedia.org.ph>
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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.

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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu) <
jerry.tschan.yu <at> 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 <ktc <at> ktchan.info> wrote:
>
>> Congratulation Hong Kong! I'll be there. :)
>>
>> --
>> Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
>>    - Heinrich Heine
>>
>>
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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
> ???? ?? ??? ?????????? ????? ?? ??????? ???????
>
>
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>


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Wikimedia Philippines Inc.

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