On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Philippe Beaudette <philippe@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Deryck Chan <deryckchan@gmail.com> wrote:
Due to differences between climate conditions of DC and HK, Wikimania 2013 will accommodate fewer lectures than Wikimania 2012.

Hi Deryck,

I don't understand this sentence. Can you please explain what is meant here?

Hi Philippe

Basically this is a technical issue, as a contingency plan for Typhoon

(we actually stated in the bidding process)

usually a typhoon will strike Hong Kong for 8-12 hours even it is a direct hit

in some cases when it strikes in the day time

usually will only affect us a Morning or an afternoon, or a whole day cancellation

so it this kind of situation we need to squeeze the program into the rest of the time

so we tend to have longer coffee and lunch breaks in normal times

then we will squeeze the program into the original break time when typhoon lead to cancellation of events

Thanks,
pb

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