Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-28 Thread Kim Bruning
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:46:38PM +0300, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 2011/6/28 Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl Is there anyone who currently wants to come to wikimania, but definitely won't be able to come due to issues with permit/visa? Except doing our best to help the Palestinians who

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-28 Thread Milos Rancic
From the brighter side: it is confirmed that no Palestinian will have problems with visa. On Jun 28, 2011 10:05 PM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:46:38PM +0300, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 2011/6/28 Kim Bruning kim@brunin... Except doing our best to help the

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-28 Thread Matthias Erlandsen
Hi everybody, This a good way to discuss topics, but is there any chance for me not to get this emails? I'm not participating in this Wikimania (at least not this time) neither I am in the committee of organisation. Thanks a lot. Matthias Erlandsen Estudiante de Comunicación Social / Periodismo

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-28 Thread Harel Cain
Nobody forces you to read this mailing list - you can just temporarily disable getting any e-mails (expect hundreds of them in the days before Wikimania) or leave the list altogether. Harel On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 23:32, Matthias Erlandsen merla...@uc.cl wrote: Hi everybody, This a good way

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-28 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Harel Cain harel.c...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody forces you to read this mailing list - you can just temporarily disable getting any e-mails (expect hundreds of them in the days before Wikimania) or leave the list altogether. What Harel meant to say is: take a

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-28 Thread WereSpielChequers
I don't remember meeting any Palestinians at the last two Wikimanias either, so if there are no Palestinians coming despite the geography then that is unfortunate. But if we can honestly say that no Palestinians tried to come but were unable to get visas then I am somewhat reassured, and thanks

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-28 Thread Matthias Erlandsen
Thank you guys. Since I'm on a Blackberry and 3G is really slow, I wasn't able to click on it, neither I have realized about that option before. Greetings. Matthias Erlandsen Estudiante de Comunicación Social / Periodismo Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Blackberry PIN: 21E3D0DD Cel: +56

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-28 Thread KIZU Naoko
Hello, I don't recall any Arabic participants in Boston, in Taiwan either (they decided not to show from their own reason), many in Alexandria but not so many from outside of Egypt, no Palestinians but two Israelis, one Syrian and one Irani (our steward) .. iirc there were some Jordanian