Hi,
We are soon gonna meet again in Wikimania 2014, and as many of the chapters
and the WMF already published their final financial numbers for 2013, I
encourage everyone who didn't do it yet - like WMF, WMDE, WMFR, WMAT, and
some others to update their numbers:
I think it is a mostly personal decision, that depends more on the person
than on the audience.
In general, my experience is that Germans underestimate their English
abilities. But not sure if that is helpful.
Lodewijk
2014-03-30 12:51 GMT+02:00 rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com:
Hi
Hey Edward,
sorry for the delay in responding - I was a bit overflowing with stuff that
needed to happen irl. Sorry to see too that there were so few other
responses at all to my questions for input (two on the talk page).
In some way, my proposal is an experiment of course. This isn't meant as
Hi Lodewijk, I like the idea of discussions that are more structured and
well-known before the conference.
Re: Taiwan, which open space idea were you describing that didn't work? Was
that the lightning talks or something else?
-Andrew Lih
Associate professor of journalism, American University
I was referring to the 'open space' where there was a space (which also
happened to be really open, near the registration desk) where the schedule
was very fluid (if memory serves me well) and where people were asked to
just stand up and start talking. Not lightning (I like those, if well
I understand Lodewijk's idea as an option to include more substance
discussions as a kind of addition to the speaker/audience situation we have
in most sessions. And that should be worth thinking about. The larger the
conference becomes the harder it is to find session formats that are
different
