[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikimania] Wikimania 2006 - host city contest, latest update

Tue Oct 4 09:04:19 UTC 2005

Cormac Lawler <cormaggio at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Did anyone think to create a log of this meeting or save it in some form?

The public shortlist meeting held Sunday night lasted a bit over an
hour.  During the meeting, there was private discussion among the jury
members*, to reach consensus on the finalists.

You can see a log of the public chat here :
  http://hcs.harvard.edu/~sjklein/mania-meeting-log.txt

And the finalists here :
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Boston
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Toronto

Both are exciting bids... it is a nice change to see major
universities vying for association with Wikimedia projects.  Next up:
libraries vying to be official repositories of snapshots?

* So I was told.  The original jury was set up before Boston was a
candidate city.  Now that I am the contact for Boston, I am not on the
jury, nor involved with its private discussions.

++SJ

On 9/30/05, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> PS. "Jury" will be composed of the Board of the Foundation, Elian,
> Akl, JeLuF, Austin, Sj and myself.