On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Well, the board has real life meetings and, like David, most of the chapters do. :-) There's also been "WMCON" where a bunch of board members, developers, and chapter members had meetings in the same place at the same time, which seems to have been very beneficial, because they've had two-in-a-row. <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMCON> There was also a fundraising summit hosted by Wikimedia UK <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Fundraising_Summit>, which Thomas could tell us more about. > Can > anyone here give me solid examples of successful projects that were > born thanks to past Wikimanias? > Something obvious is hacking days, which hopefully Brion could tell us more about. :-) Pages about previous hacking days: * <http://wikimania2005.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hacking_Days&oldid=7240> * <http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_days> * <http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_days> * <http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Days> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
