Re: [Wikimania-l] [Spam] Re: Thistle City Barbican fully booked?

2014-06-11 Thread Richard Symonds
I will endeavour to keep the list up to date :-) Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street,

[Wikimania-l] Wikimania Payment Processing/Early Bird extension.

2014-06-11 Thread Stuart Prior
Hello all, We are going to extend Early Bird registration (c30% discount) to the 1st of July, and we are going to arrange it so that payment for tickets can be made via Paypal. I am working on this now and it should be live in a day or two. I will notify all when this is live. Best Stuart --

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Payment Processing/Early Bird extension.

2014-06-11 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Jun 11, 2014 5:26 PM, Stuart Prior stuart.pr...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hello all, We are going to extend Early Bird registration (c30% discount) to the 1st of July, and we are going to arrange it so that payment for tickets can be made via Paypal. I am working on this now and it should

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Payment Processing/Early Bird extension.

2014-06-11 Thread Lodewijk
Thank you for this constructive approach towards feedback! Best, Lodewijk 2014-06-11 17:32 GMT+02:00 Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com: On Jun 11, 2014 5:26 PM, Stuart Prior stuart.pr...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hello all, We are going to extend Early Bird registration (c30%

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Payment Processing/Early Bird extension.

2014-06-11 Thread Edward Saperia
Bold, Revert, Discuss is difficult to do for conferences, but we're doing our best :-) *Edward Saperia* Chief Coordinator Wikimania London http://www.wikimanialondon.org email e...@wikimanialondon.org • facebook http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia • twitter http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia •

[Wikimania-l] Live captioning for future plenaries?

2014-06-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
http://composition.al/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/ I went to this conference and it worked out really well. As the Computer-Assisted Realtime Transcription (CART) captioner writes at http://stenoknight.com/demo.html : When an event needs to be made

Re: [Wikimania-l] Live captioning for future plenaries?

2014-06-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
By the way, if Wikimania 2014 organisers are interested in doing this, seek out STTR (Speech To Text Reporter) or palantypy services, as those are what CART is called in the UK, I think. And if this is another thing we add into the accessibility planning for future Wikimanias, then we'd check what