On 4/21/10 6:43 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Dear world: Help wanted. Plz send a rowboat and a few paddles.
<mode throwing ideas in the basket> Have you thought of setting up a travel in balloon such as Jean-Louis Etienne http://www.jeanlouisetienne.com/generali_arctic_observer/en/ and asking sponsors to fund the whole thing ? </mode throwing ideas in the basket> > > It’s no secret by now that a volcano in Iceland with an > unpronounceable name decided to get cranky this week and stranded > hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. > > With that out of the way, Did you know… that half the Wikimedia > Foundation staff and a lot of volunteers who were in Berlin for the > Wikimedia Developers and Chapters conferences (since renamed, > collectively, “Ashcon”), were among those who were stuck? > > We’re making the best of it… we’ve got it better than a lot of > people. We’re in a very nice hotel in downtown Berlin, and we’ve got > food and drink. We’re missing our families and really want to be > home, but the whole trip has a very “summer camp” feeling to it now. > We’ve done laundry, and “the boys” (as Danese affectionately calls > them) are whacking some Mediawiki bugs from our makeshift office in > the lobby. The kind people at Wikimedia-Germany have been wonderful > hosts, arranging outings, giving tours of their office, and connecting > us with local Wikimedians for sight-seeing tours. > > We’re getting pretty good at ordering curry-wurst, and we’ve found the > local Ka-De-We department store (which Danese affectionately labeled > “heaven”). On the whole, we’re doing okay. Some of us are even > optimistic about making it home someday soon. Others are practicing > their German. But Iceland, you’re on notice: we’re holding a grudge. > > ____________________ > > Philippe Beaudette > Facilitator, Strategy Project > Wikimedia Foundation > > [email protected] > > Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
