On 7/31/10 5:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > I am thinking about making Wikimania 2011 as awesome as possible and > here's a little something that bothered me. > > Wikimania 2010 was my first. It was a lot of fun to meet Wikimedians > from around the world. I also think that a lot of new ideas were born > thanks to the personal meetings in Gdansk, at least some of which may > grow to successful projects. Maybe it will be smarter use of machine > translation, maybe outreach to underprivileged languages, maybe > accessibility improvements. Maybe other things. > > But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any > proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal > meetings between Wikimedians are not just fun for them, but actually > beneficial to the Wikimedia community, the Internet, the Humanity? Can > anyone here give me solid examples of successful projects that were > born thanks to past Wikimanias?
Children... I know that for a fact :) Delphine met Arne whilst going to Germany to prepare first Wikimania ever. Look now: two children. Our future :) Ant _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
