Re: [Wikimania-l] Thanks for all the fish... and lessons learned

2011-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
James Hare, 09/08/2011 20:15: Here's a thought. I stayed at what the conference called the Senate dorms, yet I see nothing on campus that indicates that it was called that. Yes, the term Senate Dorms does appear at the bus stop, and there is a Senate House nearby, but the dorms themselves

Re: [Wikimania-l] CD

2011-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Niklas Laxström, 15/08/2011 18:49: Compared to how I was handled during my stay in Israel I was totally not expecting anything like this. I didn't heard a single sorry for your inconvenience, only once they said me to thank you for your cooperation. The point is that they don't seem to know

Re: [Wikimania-l] CD

2011-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Federico Leva (Nemo), 17/08/2011 08:59: PS: I didn't find them very good-looking either, like someone claimed. Uh? :-? By the way I agree, but looking at some of the lots of the trainees the situation might improve in the future. :-p Oh, and I forgot to say that one of them was also even

[Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread maarten deneckere
Hey, On the Wikimania wikihttp://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Scholarshipswe have some discussions on the best way to organize the partial scholarships. We want to prevent that people from countries far away from the venue (Australia, Canada, thirld world countries, ...) stay home

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM, maarten deneckere maartendeneckere+wikima...@gmail.com wrote: Please help us for the next conference, and fill in the questionnaire on https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG1BaUJHZkpJS2puSHJuTGN0Sk9NcHc6MQ Is this being wrong by the

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread aude
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM, maarten deneckere maartendeneckere+wikima...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, On the Wikimania wikihttp://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Scholarshipswe have some discussions on the best way to organize the partial scholarships. We want to prevent that

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread Lodewijk
The current setup does not seem to target non-attendees if I read the questions - none the less one of the querstions does give it as an option... *confused* 2011/8/17 aude aude.w...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM, maarten deneckere maartendeneckere+wikima...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread maarten deneckere
This is my idea. I heard a lot of people complaining only a small part of their flight was paid back, or others (smarter!) persons admitted they had to search for other sources of funding. Like I stated on the form, all entries will be made anonymous before analysing and discussing (removal of

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread maarten deneckere
Lodewijk, if you did not attend, you can just add the flight costs *you would have paid to get there*. I added it on the form. Grtz, Maarten 2011/8/17 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org The current setup does not seem to target non-attendees if I read the questions - none the less one of

Re: [Wikimania-l] CD

2011-08-17 Thread Harel Cain
I don't suggest taking the train from Jerusalem to the airport - it takes a very long time - the train to Jerusalem is very slow and is more of a tourist attraction than anything else. It's much, much easier to call a sherut taxi called Nesher which will pick you up from home/hotel and take you