I agree in some parts with Robin. You can choose any date you want there is an excuse not to come. If anyone is interested, she/he will mark this day to come. Or do we want to attract persons just walking by, listening only because they have nothing else to do...?
I suggest to identify our target audience and evaluate their calendar. If we want to target on students, a day during holiday would be bad - if we want to target on sports people, a bright weekend would be bad - if we want to target on nerds, a date during a hacker congress would be bad. So any idea, what audience we want to have on our Wikipedia Day? I think, the main audience should be the press. But they would come any day as long a good story can be expected. So our second targeted audience are stundents as they have a big knowledge and have many time to write excellent articles. ;-) Therefore I suggest a date about 2-3 weeks before semester end / or 3-4 weeks after semester beginning. Jürg > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von > Michael Bimmler > Gesendet: Samstag, 14. Januar 2006 15:46 > An: Mailing list for Wikimedia Swizerland > Betreff: Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikipedia Day - Date - new proposal > > 2006/1/13, Ilario Valdelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It seems to be a good decision. In my experience (but I've worked a > > lot with Germany and Italy and not with Swiss companies) all I have > > fixed in August was after delayed. > > > > In any case IMHO it is important, at moment, to fix only a deadline > > and a period, the date can be fixed some months before > verifying the > > avalaibility of seat, avalaibility of persons and more. > > > This is unfortunately not so, as we would like to be listed > in the ch-open directory, and I think, Manuel said, that he > needs to have a definite date by end of January. > Regards > Michael > > Ilario > > > > Michael Bimmler wrote: > > > > >Hello, > > >I just remarked, that I am actually not so in favour of the last > > >saturday of holidays for the following two reasons: > > >1. People are a) still in holidays b) just coming back > c)tired, want > > >to relax a bit before start etc. > > >2. A lot of people that we need to get in touch with some weeks > > >before the events will be on holidays during july/early > august. This > > >probably includes universitiy employees as well as the > responsibles > > >for the places where we want to advertise. > > >3, During the short Swiss summer, people will spend *a > lot* of their > > >free time (especially Saturdays) in "public swimming baths" (blame > > >leo for this term), e.g. in the lake. I doubt whether > anybody would > > >want to be on a hot day (last day of holidays or even last summer > > >weekend) in a room, listening to presentations or working with > > >computers. When it's hot, people in CH want to be outside, > swimming, > > >barbecueing and so on. > > >Therefore I "nominate" a date in the second half of september (e.g. > > >Sat Sept 23), then it won't be so hot and sunny anymore, > people won't > > >be swimming anymore and may rather come during the day (remark, we > > >are not talking about the evening) that in the middle of > the short summer. > > >So I'm just afraid, that we decide on a day like the Aug > 26th and are > > >then disappointed 'cause the weather guys say that it would be the > > >last sunny weekend in this year and then nobody comes. > > >What do you think? > > >Michael _______________________________________________ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
