Thank you for this update, Jerry! Good to know that the organisation is well on track.
Best regards, Bence On Friday, March 22, 2013, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wikimaniacs & Non-Wikimaniacs > This is your local team lead for this years conference in Hong Kong. > As the local team pretty understands everyone's anticipation to the conference > so we will try to keep you informed about the latest update of the conference > whenever they can be release to the public > Here are a few piece of info I think you will be interested to know > a. Hostel accommodation > One thing I am sorry to tell you that, the dorm of PolyU is not available due to renovation in this summer. > So we have arrange the dorm of another university in Kowloon, Baptist University for scholarship recipients (whether WMF or Chapter scholarship) > However, the BU dorm is not in the walking distance to PolyU, > but it is still in a very convenient location, just two MTR stations away from PolyU > and we will also arrange shuttle in the morning, to getting most people to the venue. > We estimate there are still a number of beds that can be available as hostel options, > so the local team will start accepting reservation for these extra beds > when the scholarship recipients start getting letter of notifications. > We will only accept those reservation request from those who are not supported by any scholarship or any Wikimedia entities, > and also we may consider reserving some beds for Wikipedians/wikimedians only > For the location of the new dorm, you may visit this website: http://sa.hkbu.edu.hk/ugh/hallmap.html > More information will be available in the official wiki > b. Parties > We are basically settled on the choice of venue for both welcoming parties and closing parties > however we cannot reveal too much, either we are still negotiation, or revealing may lead to some extra cost. > For the opening party, please pray for a good weather, as you can enjoy the famous harbour view from the venue. > and for the closing party, considering some feedbacks we will switch to a Beach party, rather than Beach barbecue > the location is also different from the one we stated in the bid > however, you can still experience the different landscape of Hong Kong (suppose you never see or even expect) > > > If you have any questions, please feel free to keep asking in the current available means > like here, or the wiki page, we may try to be active on IRC, but due to the time difference.... we cannot be always online while you're online > lOOking forward to seeing you here in August > -- > 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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