Hi all, unfortunately I have not spotted a response to this email. Could someone from the 2017 team confirm what is the situation at this point? Or who I should be talking with?
Best, Lodewijk 2016-07-07 15:53 GMT+02:00 Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org>: > Hey Marc, all, > > Based on this conversation, I took a look at the programme draft here > <https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme>. I noticed that the Round > table discussions <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discussions> > (a.k.a. Discussion Room) are not scheduled. Given the description that is > available on the wiki, I presume this is not covered by the 'birds of a > feather'. > > I do hope we can schedule the round table discussions again, and that we > can implement some of the lessons we're drawing from the experiences in the > past three years on this issue (we = the small committee that organised the > discussions this year). Feedback seemed rather positive initially (with > some suggestions for improvement), but we'll be collecting some more in the > upcoming weeks. > > Best, > Lodewijk > > 2016-07-07 15:23 GMT+02:00 Marc-Andre <m...@uberbox.org>: > >> Hey, >> >> On 2016-07-07 08:27 AM, Lane Rasberry wrote: >> >>> Backing up - one way to improve Wikimania to meet this and other demands >>> is to >>> 1. Have extra spaces for small meetups >>> 2. Put those spaces on a public schedule which can be edited by the >>> community >>> >>> >> So, in practice, that already exists for Montreal in two flavours: >> >> (a) Bird-of-a-Feather sessions, which are open to anyone to schedule (in >> advance) and have reserved meeting space. Those will be open for >> reservation from about three months before the event to as late as we can >> make it and still have them appear in the programme. Those are ideal for >> preplanned meetings and probably what you'd use for the North American >> meetups. >> >> (b) Unconferency meetups, that are *not* scheduled in advance, but for >> which both meeting space and a common scheduling system (think >> "whiteboard") are made available for ad-hoc meetings during the conference >> and preconference. Any room which had been set aside for the BoF that was >> not used will be added to the pool, but there /will/ be meeting space even >> if all of the BoF slots are taken. >> >> >> -- Coren / Marc >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> > >
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