On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Philippe Beaudette <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- Jeromy-Yu "Jerry" Chan, ARAD User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia Advisor, Wikimedia Hong Kong ChapCom/ComCom, Wikimedia Foundation Coordinator-in-Chief, Wikimania 2013 also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places http://plasticnews.wf| http://about.me/jeromyu Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601 *Lend us a simple edit, you're a Wikipedian!*
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