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birgitte_sb at yahoo

Mar 25, 2008, 1:01 PM

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Re: Wikimania 2009 - deadline PRIVATE

You should annouce to WMF that your bid will be
withdrawn if not accepted by a certain date. If you
could get Toronto to agree to do this as a united
front it would be even better.

That is what I would do in your place.

Birgitte SB

--- Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente[at]gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear friends:
>
> We are writting this email
> in behalf of
> Wikimedia Argentina, to tell you about our concern
> because of the lack
> of news about the jury decision and even about when
> this decision may
> be taken.
>
> This is not just a personal
> concern and is not
> only caused by an understandable anxiety: we are
> being requested from
> potential sponsors and media and we are delaying
> this meetings because
> we don't know what to tell them. The worst thing is
> that we can't tell
> them at least when are we going to know the
> decision. The Director of
> our proposed venue is pushing us to define if we are
> going to use it
> or not, because they need to set the 2009 agenda.
> And so on. We think
> the Toronto team may have the same problems.
>
> The last deadline finished
> twelve days ago,
> and since then we had no news. We don't want to
> disturb nor to hurry
> up the jury discussion, but it would be of great
> help if the jury
> could establish a final date. If this is done, at
> least part of the
> uncertainty will disappear.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patricio
> Lorente Presidente
> Enrique
> Chaparro (Vicepresidente)
> Wikimedia
> Argentina
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikimania-l mailing list
> Wikimania-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org
>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
>



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birgitte_sb at yahoo

Mar 25, 2008, 1:01 PM

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Re: Wikimania 2009 - deadline PRIVATE [In reply to]

You should annouce to WMF that your bid will be
withdrawn if not accepted by a certain date. If you
could get Toronto to agree to do this as a united
front it would be even better.

That is what I would do in your place.

Birgitte SB

--- Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente[at]gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear friends:
>
> We are writting this email
> in behalf of
> Wikimedia Argentina, to tell you about our concern
> because of the lack
> of news about the jury decision and even about when
> this decision may
> be taken.
>
> This is not just a personal
> concern and is not
> only caused by an understandable anxiety: we are
> being requested from
> potential sponsors and media and we are delaying
> this meetings because
> we don't know what to tell them. The worst thing is
> that we can't tell
> them at least when are we going to know the
> decision. The Director of
> our proposed venue is pushing us to define if we are
> going to use it
> or not, because they need to set the 2009 agenda.
> And so on. We think
> the Toronto team may have the same problems.
>
> The last deadline finished
> twelve days ago,
> and since then we had no news. We don't want to
> disturb nor to hurry
> up the jury discussion, but it would be of great
> help if the jury
> could establish a final date. If this is done, at
> least part of the
> uncertainty will disappear.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patricio
> Lorente Presidente
> Enrique
> Chaparro (Vicepresidente)
> Wikimedia
> Argentina
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikimania-l mailing list
> Wikimania-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org
>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
>



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birgitte_sb at yahoo

Mar 25, 2008, 1:17 PM

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Re: Wikimania 2009 - deadline PRIVATE [In reply to]

I meant to send that privately because I haven't been
participating on this list. Luclikly it is fit for
public comsumption :)

Birgitte SB

--- Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb[at]yahoo.com> wrote:

> You should annouce to WMF that your bid will be
> withdrawn if not accepted by a certain date. If you
> could get Toronto to agree to do this as a united
> front it would be even better.
>
> That is what I would do in your place.
>
> Birgitte SB
>
> --- Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente[at]gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear friends:
> >
> > We are writting this email
> > in behalf of
> > Wikimedia Argentina, to tell you about our concern
> > because of the lack
> > of news about the jury decision and even about
> when
> > this decision may
> > be taken.
> >
> > This is not just a
> personal
> > concern and is not
> > only caused by an understandable anxiety: we are
> > being requested from
> > potential sponsors and media and we are delaying
> > this meetings because
> > we don't know what to tell them. The worst thing
> is
> > that we can't tell
> > them at least when are we going to know the
> > decision. The Director of
> > our proposed venue is pushing us to define if we
> are
> > going to use it
> > or not, because they need to set the 2009 agenda.
> > And so on. We think
> > the Toronto team may have the same problems.
> >
> > The last deadline finished
> > twelve days ago,
> > and since then we had no news. We don't want to
> > disturb nor to hurry
> > up the jury discussion, but it would be of great
> > help if the jury
> > could establish a final date. If this is done, at
> > least part of the
> > uncertainty will disappear.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Patricio
> > Lorente Presidente
> > Enrique
> > Chaparro (Vicepresidente)
> > Wikimedia
> > Argentina
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wikimania-l mailing list
> > Wikimania-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org
> >
>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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>



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