Re: [Wikimania-l] [ComProj] GSOC 2008

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Cary Bass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian J. Wong Cruz wrote: Hello everybody, I'd like to know if Wikimedia will be a mentor for the Google Summer of Code 2008 and if there is a mailling list about this topic. Thanks Hi Christian, I'm

Re: [Wikimania-l] Status of scholarships

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:45 PM, José Alberto Conrado Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS.- If a scholarship ommittee member has a little spare time, could they mind telling us (particularly or generally) the reason that we were not chosen? Thank you. Unfortunately, with the hundreds of

Re: [Wikimania-l] Questions about how to start - customs

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Geoffrey Plourde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question regards customs. In the event that people don't clear customs, or if customs delays them for a couple hours, will the ground team have plans in place to handle that? Handle what? In the event that you're

Re: [Wikimania-l] Comments

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Filip Maljkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to briefly add my two piasters to the table: I was, too, ripped off several times by several people, like most of the visitors at one point or another. We all experienced the chaotic Egyptian traffic. There were some

Re: [Wikimania-l] Computer shop in Buenos Aires

On Aug 22, 2009, at 1:51, Jim Redmond j...@scrubnugget.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 23:36, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: My wife raised this since she is bringing her laptop. I hope that I was right in saying that a laptop works off its DC battery, and the public AC only

Re: [Wikimania-l] [wikimania 2010] Babysitting?

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote: Thirded :). We are also considering coming to Wikimedia with Ada (age 18 month by then, her second Wikimania..). We've arranged for this in the past. I do find it cute that we're now accounting for the first

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania2010] Fwd: A few questions/remarks about Wikimania 2010

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: You're talking like someone who has never been a parent. By way of observation, one of the problems with this issue is that most Wikimedians are young enough to never have been parents themselves, and have no experience

Re: [Wikimania-l] about wikimania page

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Fajro fai...@gmail.com wrote: Wikimania should have only one wiki. Why not merge all in wikimania.org? In short: * We don't own wikimania.org. * Having separate wikis for each conference avoids quite a lot of unnecessary maintanance each year, such as

Re: [Wikimania-l] Registration still not open...

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: If you're running into tech nightmares, please consider just using a straightforward hosted registration system like Eventbrite or one of the higher end solutions. See this page for an overview of tools: Or consider taking

[Wikimania-l] Registration

Hi all, Registration for Wikimania 2010 should be open very shortly. In the meantime, however, anyone on this list with visa concerns should e-mail me off-list so I can begin the process of getting you what you need. Regards, Austin ___ Wikimania-l

[Wikimania-l] Registration update

]) and doesn't yet have an invitation letter, or has any doubt whatsoever, should e-mail me at aus...@wikimedia.org. Thanks, Austin Hair [1] http://www.wikimania2010.pl/wiki/Wizy/en ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikimania-l] Registration

Hi guys, I know the matter of hours in my last update turned into a matter of days, but much to my dismay, the issue of payment still hasn't been resolved. While we're working on this, however, you can go ahead and register. The public announcement will come in the next day or two, once we have

Re: [Wikimania-l] Registration

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Usability issue with the form: Why the entire form gets reset if one of the entry is missing/wrong? It is really pain to  type the entire content again and again. (For example, I missed to select payment method, I

Re: [Wikimania-l] Registration

Hey Cormac, I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you—some of these questions were contingent on the results of a meeting I had this afternoon (CET). Accommodation costs are separate, and currently the least expensive option is €20/night. The bright side is that many of these will be nicer

Re: [Wikimania-l] Technical resources?

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Kurt Bollacker k...@longnow.org wrote: I thought I'd ask about the technical resources available for presentations and the conference in general: 1. Will WiFi be available throughout the venue? Yes. Wifi is available throughout, and we're working on beefing

Re: [Wikimania-l] registration confirmation form does not work

Thanks for bringing that to my attention, Achal. It looks like you indicated at the time of your registration that you needed a visa, and at that time some fields we now require were not on the registration form. It was simply asking you to fill in the missing information before continuing.

Re: [Wikimania-l] My Registration

/29 Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com: Meanwhile, *everyone* registered will get an e-mail today, one way or another. Did this happen? I don't think I received an e-mail. I guess no-one received an e-mail, including me :-( -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikimania-l] My Registration

: Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org Asunto: Re: [Wikimania-l] My Registration Para: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: sábado, 3 de julio, 2010 21:55 is there any way people can help? 2010/7/2 Austin Hair adh...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=adh

Re: [Wikimania-l] Airport Pickup

These are indeed prevalent in the old town. Keep in mind that they do not normally cash traveler's checks, though. Austin On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:31 PM, masti mast...@gmail.com wrote: there are a lot of Exchange Points called Kantor here are the ones ner the Venue:

Re: [Wikimania-l] electrical inlet/outlet

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Francisco Treviño zerofranci...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. Could anybody from the people already at the Gdansk post a photograph of the electrical inlet/outlet plugs, to check compatibility with the ones all the rest of us uses. The power sockets are europlugs

Re: [Wikimania-l] Lost: Purple Jacket

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Kat Walsh k...@mindspillage.org wrote: If anyone finds a ladies' purple jacket around the venue, please let me know! (It is lost and probably very scared and lonely, and will appreciate being reunited with its owner.) If found, we will give it milk and cookies

Re: [Wikimania-l] thank you

2010/7/15 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com: And again, it's all about the people :) Shh, you're giving away our secrets! I've said it many times, but 90% of it is just getting a few hundred Wikimedians together in the same building. 9% of it is making sure they have power and Internet

Re: [Wikimania-l] Problematic aspects of hosting the next conference in Haifa, Israel

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Maysara Omar maysara.o...@gmail.com wrote: Harel and Moushira, why the rush on closing this thread?!! :) Let us give time and space for a civilized and purposeful dialogue and deliberation to come to fruition and realization! On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:30

Re: [Wikimania-l] Problematic aspects of hosting the next conference in Haifa, Israel

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: Not that I want to support this thread any further (and I believe you as a moderator could have already frozen it), but just to remark that as far as I know there is a single country in the world which provides

Re: [Wikimania-l] What to do about 2012, and the future

2011/1/19 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Finne Boonen hen...@gmail.com wrote: However, most other fields have several conferences a year where people meet each other. I'm not sure we have enough events that allow real international 'mingling' to take

Re: [Wikimania-l] What to do about 2012, and the future

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Harel Cain harel.c...@gmail.com wrote: I would just like to correct myself and all those people who I misled into using the word biannual. Thanks to Asaf Bartov to pointing out to me that the correct form is biennial. According to most dictionaries, biannual

Re: [Wikimania-l] Israel = apartheid

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:50 PM, matthew satchwell mattsatchw...@gmail.com wrote: Please dont hold you conference in Haifa If so I will be obliged to boycott you I was brought up in South Africa I'm sorry we won't see you there, Matthew. Austin ___

Re: [Wikimania-l] Israel = apartheid

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:23 PM, matthew satchwell mattsatchw...@gmail.com wrote: This is the thing with Zionists, a questions is not answered, instead a tirade of rhetoric, except I read from your response that you do accept that there is a lack of freedom in Israel. (this is a start) I want

Re: [Wikimania-l] Boycott Wikimania 2011

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Anonyme cautio...@gmail.com wrote: I decided to do a complete boycott of Wikimania 2011 due to Israel's politics and the situation in the Gaza Strip and the illegal colonization in the West Bank. I'm not sure you understand how a boycott works. Austin

Re: [Wikimania-l] need confirmation

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Simona Kehler simonakeh...@gmail.com wrote: did i subscribed? Nope. ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

Re: [Wikimania-l] A trip to Petra after Wikimania

I was going to write a summary of our (Finne's and my) trip to Petra, but Manuel covered everything nicely. Take special note of the higher admission prices, as they were raised recently and probably differ from what's in any guidebook you might have. The only thing I have to add is that, as

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation on the future of Wikimania

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3 December 2015 at 14:21, Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Ellie Young <eyo...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> > A lot of work

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation on the future of Wikimania

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Ellie Young wrote: > A lot of work has gone into preparing for the consultation.It will be > going out December 14. We are looking forward to getting everyone's feedback > in the weeks after and into early January. Is there a