Hi all, Reading the recent posts on this mailing list and elsewhere, I realised we never got around to sending you an update on the roundtable discussions/Discussion Room for the upcoming Wikimania! So let me try to make that up to you. You can find the final schedule here <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discussions>, and I hope to find many of you involved in at least one of the discussions!
This year we have scheduled 18 round table discussions on a wide range of topics. Besides the 18 scheduled 'regular' round table discussions, we will also organise a number of round table discussions with board members on themes, to replace the traditional 'Q&A' with the board. Hopefully we can offer you some more interaction and in-depth conversations this way. After our calls for suggestions, we got an overwhelming number of submissions <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discussions/Submissions> with many good ideas for potential discussions. With a committee of five experienced Wikimedians, we discussed those submissions, and pronged a bit with questions - what could the discussion result in, what kind of outcomes are possible, etc. Based on these proposals, questions and answers we made selections of what would be the most likely fruitful discussions - along with criteria like diversity in the schedule. After much discussing, we ended up with the selection linked above. I realise many people will feel somewhat disappointed that their topic was not selected. I would have liked to give every proposer at least a personal comment on it, but unfortunately due to time constraints we were unable to follow up sufficiently. Sorry for that. We still have some details to work out for the discussions, so please bear with us (facilitators, the details of the session itself). I'm looking forward to a lot (!) of constructive conversations in the 'Primary School' building in Esino Lario. See you there! Best, Lodewijk
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