Hi all,
I am arriving next Thursday, July 28th in Haifa.
To make the most out of the days until Wikimania I rented a car for July
29th to August 1st.
If someone is interested in spending time together, seeing the country
(one of my plans is to see the Dead Sea) then contact me.
Regards,
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:39:59PM +0300, Harel Cain wrote:
I think those numbers will be teaching, and will put this discussion in the
true perspective it deserves.
Speaking of putting things in perspective, I've been told off-channel
that there have been several previous debates on this
Just for the record, in WM08,
there were around 10 people from Bahrain, UAE, Jordan, Syria, Alegria and a
speaker from Lebanon in addition to 3 Israelis... I don't think that was bad
for a usually under-represented region.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Harel Cain harel.c...@gmail.com wrote:
While we're discussing cultural and religious difficulties, may I add the
somewhat overlooked fact that the third day of the main conference falls on
Saturday, the Jewish Shabbat, in which observant Jews are strongly
restricted in everything they do and the vast majority of them would not
even
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Manuel Schneider
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
We discussed that last year and someone came up with a sensible remark:
If you are travelling during Ramadan, you are excempted from the fast.
It should also be noted that Wikimania 2009 also took place
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:21 PM, CasteloBranco
michelcastelobra...@gmail.com wrote:
Em 20/07/2011 14:38, Thomas Dalton escreveu:
I agree, avoiding Ramadan isn't really feasible. Wikimania is always
held in the summer, and I don't think we should change that.
In the south hemisphere, the
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:52 PM, CasteloBranco
michelcastelobra...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, James, you're probably right. It was a joke, of course, but also a
kind of invite to a reflexion.
If we want to improve the participation of people from Middle East,
Africa, India, Latin America, it
