Hi Everyone! Deadline for submitting expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024, 2025 is today, Sunday, 8 January. This is already an extended deadline.
For those who submitted already, please finalise the content of your expression of interest. Incomplete/lack of content and single person submission will be eliminated from the initial selection process. Wiki page: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Expressions_of_Interest Submissions: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2024_expressions_of_interest https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2025_expressions_of_interest Kind regards, Butch On behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee On Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 5:58 AM phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > An update to Iolanda's message below - we have decided to keep the process > open for a couple more weeks to give some extra time to put in new > expressions of interest and also to work on and fill out the ones that have > been submitted so far. Thanks to everyone who has submitted! > > The new deadline is January 8th - and the Wikimania steering committee > will deliberate after that. Remember that you can express your interest in > hosting the conference in 2024 and beyond. > > Don't forget to write about: > - your team! do you have an existing group of Wikimedians who have worked > on events? Would you like to use the event to recruit new Wikimedians to > your group? Do you have a regional collaboration? > - Your vision and goal for the conference. Why do you want Wikimania to be > held in your area? > > As Iolanda wrote - you don't need to have a venue or logistics. But if you > have ideas (are there particular places you can imagine, or many options? > Places similarly sized conferences have been?) then tell us about them! > > Please let the steering committee know if you have any questions. > > best, > Phoebe > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 6:25 AM Iolanda Pensa <iola...@pensa.it> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> Wikimania is an extraordinary event: consider hosting it!! >> >> By December 16th express your interest in hosting Wikimania in 2024, 2025 >> and beyond >> https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Expressions_of_Interest >> >> You don’t need to have a venue secured or event logistics in place, >> that’s something we will work on together. At this point, we are primarily >> seeking your expression of interest. Hosting an international event with >> the size and magnitude of Wikimania – and now with added distributed and >> hybrid participation models – is complicated. With resources from the >> Foundation and guidance from the Wikimania Steering Committee, you will >> also have access to professional event organizers on the ground that can >> support this work. We also plan for an overlap with the current Wikimania >> 2023 organizing team to build in plenty of time for learning and >> collaboration. >> >> Looking forward to discuss with you new locations for our future >> Wikimanias >> >> Best regards, >> Iolanda, on behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee#Members >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/VLRPVXMJJR4LYNIO35GORYV3G6YVBFF4/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > -- > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > <at> gmail.com * > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/BFFNJC5TF2VS5V5NDP7T4GQZKUSPYTVA/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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