Re: [Wikimania-l] Say MiLLE GRACIE to all Wikimania volunteers

2016-06-28 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Gnangarra, it is a fact that has been in discussion a few times on this list and elsewhere that Wikimania in Australia would be a wonderful thing but something that is not likely to happen, due to the cost of getting everyone there. That said it may not be entirely impossible, but difficult.

Re: [Wikimania-l] Say MiLLE GRACIE to all Wikimania volunteers

2016-06-28 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Gnangarra, On 28.06.2016 13:16, Gnangarra wrote: > Thanks for the information Manuel, but where was this session > > who is working on identifying a host, where is this process taking place. the session was this one:

Re: [Wikimania-l] Say MiLLE GRACIE to all Wikimania volunteers

2016-06-28 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Gnangarra, On 28.06.2016 03:04, Gnangarra wrote: > Great idea, also send one to the WMF if you want wikimania to continue > beyond Montreal, because if you start fighting for it now there wont be > one in 2018 to bring the whole of our community together, there wont be > the opportunity for

[Wikimania-l] Meet with the Affiliations Committee at Wikimania

2016-06-25 Thread Manuel Schneider
Dear all, the Affiliations Committee has a room in the School at Wikimania - room 50. You can meet the Affiliations Committee every day from 10:30 to 17:30 in that room. If you have any questions, idea or need to discuss something, or want to learn more about the Wikimedia movement affiliates,

Re: [Wikimania-l] Local buses (was: Re: Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 123, Issue 16)

2016-06-13 Thread Manuel Schneider
By the way, just in case if you are interested: There are regular and good train services from Malpensa Airport (MXP) and Milano Centrale (central train station) to Varenna Esino. You can buy the tickets at machines at the stations. Malpensa - Varenna is about 2 hours, 18,70 EUR Milano C -

Re: [Wikimania-l] IMPORTANT for WMF Guests at Hilton Hotel regarding Airport Transpsortation

2015-07-19 Thread Manuel Schneider
Thanks Ellie! Who wants to share a cab today (Sunday) for flights leaving around 21:00? Please contact me directly. /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing

Re: [Wikimania-l] Video recording of Wikimania sessions

2015-07-17 Thread Manuel Schneider
Salut Guillaume, video recording is a real cost driver - you need expensive equipment (as of 1.000 USD / day) and a lot of staff if you want to make it professionally. Sometimes you are lucky and video production is offered by the venue or a video producer is providing sponsorship but otherwise

Re: [Wikimania-l] Hotel wifi fast generally but very slow on Wikipedia

2015-07-16 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 16.07.2015 um 06:54 schrieb Emmanuel Engelhart: At that time is was IMO pretty obvious that we suffer of a lack of End-2-End approach of the problem (in particular lack of tool to make the correct measurements). that's exactly what we need a looking glass I have asked for. Almost every

Re: [Wikimania-l] Hotel wifi fast generally but very slow on Wikipedia

2015-07-16 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 16.07.2015 um 17:42 schrieb Brion Vibber: I don't believe we do; someone has to manually log in and do the measurements so far. :( File a request in Phabricator for now and I'll bug the ops folks about it. :) done: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106056 /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH -

Re: [Wikimania-l] Hotel wifi fast generally but very slow on Wikipedia

2015-07-15 Thread Manuel Schneider
Oh, Cogent and Telia... I have seen issues between the two before... /Manuel Am 16.07.2015 um 03:50 schrieb Brion Vibber: *nod* Filed in phab and attached some traceroute info from my end: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105984 -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens

Re: [Wikimania-l] Hotel wifi fast generally but very slow on Wikipedia

2015-07-15 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Brion, such issues may be based on routing, depending of the peerings between the Hilton ISP and Wikimedia. One would need to check both ASes and use the respective looking glasses (does Wikimedia have one?) to check the routes. Many routes are also assymmetrical, so up- and downlink can vary.

Re: [Wikimania-l] Map?

2015-07-15 Thread Manuel Schneider
for the Hackathon you only need the 2nd floor - Don Diego 1 - 4:the big halls Don Américo:past the elevators Don Genaro: straight from the small escalators coming up from 1st floor The rooms have their names prominently next to the doors above the screens with

[Wikimania-l] Map for Wikimania 2015

2015-07-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi, as always, I started a map to bring together all points of interest for Wikimania: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/wikimania-2015_46681#18/19.43448/-99.14700 Use it as you need and feel free to add more stuff! /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne,

Re: [Wikimania-l] Power sockets

2015-07-07 Thread Manuel Schneider
My recommendation is to bring an adapter and a power strip, so you can share with people using the same socket. If everyone did that power diustribution would be much easier. Mark both the adapter and the strip as yours. /Manuel On 07/07/2015 12:31 AM, Ivan Martínez wrote: Hi Amir, that's the

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Documentary Done

2015-02-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Nkansah, yes, uploading on Commons for files 100 MB is not easy. A modern browser supporting chunked uploads using the new Commons upload wizard supports up to 1 GB. The Video Convert tool on WMF labs that has been proposed to you for the WebM encoding supports several GBs, transcodes to

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Documentary Done

2015-02-08 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi! On 02/06/2015 08:17 PM, Nkansah Rexford wrote: Yes, I can upload them to commons with the captions. The captions will only be for the ones I have done captions. Some I haven't because I don't have the translated materials yet. when uploading with captions please use the TimedText

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2016 - Jury Announcement and Start of Bidding

2014-10-01 Thread Manuel Schneider
didn't actually participate in the same, even though they were invited to do so. Regards, Manuel -- Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch

[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2016 - Jury Announcement and Start of Bidding

2014-09-20 Thread Manuel Schneider
will be announced by the end of 2014. On behalf of the Wikimania Committee with regards, Manuel -- Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Android app

2014-08-29 Thread Manuel Schneider
invitation processes, centrally hosted registration and scholarship management tools...) should be provided centrally to each year's team. /Manuel -- Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch

[Wikimania-l] Call for Volunteers: Wikimania Jury to review bids for 2016

2014-08-13 Thread Manuel Schneider
in two weeks' time. On behalf of the Wikimania Committee with regards, Manuel -- Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimania-l] Is Wikimania for contributors?

2014-08-13 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Matthias, good points. I think it would be really cool if we could accommodate all features in one big conference. My personal experience is a bit different, though. Last year I wrote a mail summarising some of my thoughts on this (in german):

Re: [Wikimania-l] Is Wikimania for contributors?

2014-08-13 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Ivo et. al., Am 13.08.2014 22:28, schrieb Ivo Kruusamägi: Even thou the movement grows and gets older, it also needs to renew. It has to attract new users to continue growing as rapidly it has in the past and it has to set up new ideas on how it can be pushed forward for the new ones to

[Wikimania-l] Return of the lent power adapter

2014-08-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
Dear all, on Thursday I lent my power adapter (UK to EU/US plug) to the Wikimania registration desk in level -1 and I try to get it back since then. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be there anymore and I can't find the person who I gave it to. It is beige and has my initials MS on it.

Re: [Wikimania-l] Bunch of keys missing

2014-08-08 Thread Manuel Schneider
Dear all, I found my keys in the Crew Office at the laminating station where I made signs on Wednesday evening. Thanks everyone for helping, re-tweeting, sharing etc.! /Manuel Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch schrieb: Originalnachricht Betreff: Bunch of keys

Re: [Wikimania-l] Acceptance of the submission without notification

2014-07-04 Thread Manuel Schneider
What is the situation with the submissions still under review? I am especially talking about the Open Data track, which has some great and specific submissions. Despite the Open Data track itself is scheduled, the only Open Data session scheduled is the Open Data Roundtable which is a red link in

Re: [Wikimania-l] Translation service for panel discussion

2014-04-04 Thread Manuel Schneider
of the equipment (which was a third-party). Someone from WMDE reading this who could have a look in the files (October 2011) to check the costs? /Manuel -- Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch

Re: [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

2014-03-24 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Stephan, Am 23.03.2014 09:51, schrieb Stephan Schulz: On the other hand, I would prefer to have a tighter, more focussed, and better structured program. Breaks should be breaks, sessions should be strictly time-boxed, session chairs should be in control of timing, and maybe the rate of

Re: [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

2014-03-24 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 24.03.2014 14:45, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): to deliver (usually a presentation, because it's the obvious thing). thanks, yes: I have heard about this last year in fact. A Wikimedian criticed that there were scholarships for people who do not even give a talk. I found this funny, like

Re: [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

2014-03-23 Thread Manuel Schneider
Just my two cents on ticket prices for Wikimedia conferences: * I can confirm with what has been said about other, professional conferences. Note the term professional. * Having a voluntarily higher price for supportive participants is something we could try. We could even try to distinguish

Re: [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

2014-03-23 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 23.03.2014 22:08, schrieb Roan Kattouw: On Mar 23, 2014 3:30 PM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch mailto:manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote: (how does the LinuxConf.au distinguish whether one is hobbyist or professional)? They give additional perks to piratical l

Re: [Wikimania-l] a thought: break events

2013-08-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Thanks Lodewijk for bringing this up. I had several discussions in the past, mostly when it was about the future of Wikimania, when I told people that Wikimania should have less parallel sessions, longer sessions with more time between the sessions and an open space as an additional track. We

Re: [Wikimania-l] a thought: break events

2013-08-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 14.08.2013 10:10, schrieb Lodewijk: Hi Maarten, Manuel, all great suggestions/feedback, but I was wondering: what are your thoughts about the break events specifically? Did you visit any? Did they make your day more smooth or exhausted? yes I did visit them, almost every day. I think

Re: [Wikimania-l] a thought: break events

2013-08-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 14.08.2013 10:24, schrieb Lodewijk: OK, so if I understand correctly you feel it should not happen in breaks, but rather as part of the regular schedule? Do you think that they should be replaced in the breaks by other events, or should the breaks remain event free in general? breaks

Re: [Wikimania-l] Taxi from Shek-O to the Airport

2013-08-11 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Stephan, I spoke with the organisers this morning about this. 21:00 is a very good plan, I did the same calculations. Guess it proves they're good ;-) According to my calculation we will have 1,5 h extra time (for traffic jams or whatever). I've been told that we might need to cabs because

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 89, Issue 10

2013-08-04 Thread Manuel Schneider
Dear Francis, Am 04.08.2013 12:51, schrieb Francis Kaswahili: Hi, Communnity hopefully you're the way to HK but l want to know how to access mobile in Tanzania we have VODACOM, TIGO, AIRTEL, TTCL, sASATEL and ZANTEL so l want to know among of all those is any one operating in HK?.. Simplly l

Re: [Wikimania-l] Could you please put your arrival time here

2013-08-04 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi, I will arrive on Tuesday morning at 6:25, so I guess I will be able to make my way toward the venue around 7:00. It doesn't look complicated to get there, I will simply buy an Octopus card and take just the next train into the city and either change to MTR or a bus line - that can be easily

Re: [Wikimania-l] Could you please put your arrival time here

2013-08-04 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 04.08.2013 18:33, schrieb Stephan Schulz: I'm leaving on the same plane (or at least at the same time). I'd be willing to share a cab, or, if more people are there, maybe the fantastic volunteers in Hongkong can arrange for a mini-bus. If we an fill a car, it's probably not very expensive

Re: [Wikimania-l] Creating a Wikimania Committee

2013-05-05 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 05.05.2013 10:52, schrieb WereSpielChequers: I like this, though program evaluation needs to allow for the possibility that the local bid team might want to organise a national language track. totally agree! What I think we should be trying to do is reduce the competing bid elements of

Re: [Wikimania-l] Creating a Wikimania Committee

2013-05-05 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 05.05.2013 11:17, schrieb Jeromy Chan: I do have some conversation on this With Ellie Young, the conference coordinator in WMF Especially some repetitive labour on sponsor every year And sort of pool of general sponsor and brand of Wikimania stuff I had a long discussion with Ellie on

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania 2013] Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later.

2013-04-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 14.04.2013 14:47, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): Butch Bustria, 14/04/2013 14:21: The registration website crashed in time for the last day of Early Bird Registration Yes, the centralnotice yesterday killed the site and was took down. I am really disappointed by this. It should be obvious

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania 2013] Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later.

2013-04-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 14.04.2013 15:40, schrieb Thomas Morton: Caching and Nginx are your first friends, every time. this is a general server for many different purposes. I don't have the money to sponsor a specialised setup just for two day of Wikimania registration and central notice. /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH -

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania 2013] Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later.

2013-04-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 14.04.2013 15:47, schrieb Thomas Morton: Which begs the question; why have Wikimania HK not budgeted for custom IT?? (ps; if you're seeing these issues a lot it's still not a bad idea to chuck a cache up in front of the web server) Sorry, this discussion is totally off-topic. We have done

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania 2013] Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later.

2013-04-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 14.04.2013 16:12, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): Maybe the first, but in such cases usually the best is learning to link only a Wikimedia project page from the sitenotice or centralnotice. Notices get a lot of random clicks, few are interested in proceeding to the server where the meat is.

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania organization structure/style

2013-04-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 14.04.2013 16:48, schrieb Jeremy Baron: Maybe there was some public planning or discussion (or even something on the -team list) that I missed or somehow wasn't subscribed to. But maybe this is one more an example of how I wish Wikimania were more like DebConf (debconf.org). Typically I've

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania 2013] Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later.

2013-04-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Sure it exists, it is my daily work and bread and butter. I just feel like I am already sponsoring enough free hosting for a lot of chapters. Fortunately WMCH and WMAT picked up now and started hosting their own servers with me - but still, these are single servers used for many different

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2014 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations

2013-02-11 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 11.02.2013 03:32, schrieb James Forrester: Secondary copy for clarity: thanks a lot James! /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikitrain to Wikimania HK

2013-01-18 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Seb, Am 17.01.2013 23:53, schrieb Seb35: Does anyone is interested to join me? You have time if you want think about. If we are some people interested in Europe, we could join in Deutschland before continuing the 10k km :) I find this extremely interesting and have to admit that I never

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 keynote - suggestions

2012-10-05 Thread Manuel Schneider
I'd like to point the Hongkong and past Wikimania teams to check out this page and ask them to add their information as well: https://wikimaniateam.wikimedia.org/wiki/Keynote_Speakers /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH

Re: [Wikimania-l] UK budget plan for 2014 Wikimania bid

2012-08-25 Thread Manuel Schneider
don't need chapters bidding for Wikimania because having done a Wikimania puts them in a certain level. As was said before, Wikimania is not the Olympic Games or the Soccer World Championship. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH

Re: [Wikimania-l] UK budget plan for 2014 Wikimania bid

2012-08-25 Thread Manuel Schneider
Jury I can assure you that it is pretty much taken into account how much Wikimania experience the bidding team has and how much the understand to make a Wikimania as Wikimania is. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012 videos are being uploaded

2012-08-21 Thread Manuel Schneider
Thanks David and James! That's great. Am 21.08.2012 22:34, schrieb James Hare: There are unofficial ways to download videos from YouTube, but it may be better to wait until the videos are available on Wikimedia Commons. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur

Re: [Wikimania-l] Thank you!!!

2012-07-19 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 19.07.2012 08:34, schrieb Florence Devouard: Hi guys Salut Madame, What's the favorite wiki page where we can collect our feedback on this year Wikimania ? vous voulez prendre ça: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback Cordialement, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider

Re: [Wikimania-l] Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Air Space Museum)

2012-07-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
which most of us know in DC, and houses the Space Shuttle Discovery (YEAH!), SR71 Blackbird, Gemini 7, the B29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a Concorde, and tons more. -- Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Gesellschaft zur Förderung freien Wissens www.wikimedia.ch

[Wikimania-l] Antw.: meeting up tonight

2012-07-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
I've been there around 18:00 and found nobody. -- Regards, Manuel Schneider Sent via mobile phone. Wikimedia CH - Reply message - Von: James Hare messedroc...@gmail.com An: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: [Wikimania-l] meeting up

Re: [Wikimania-l] Locations of DC hotels relative to the venue

2012-05-20 Thread Manuel Schneider
also, see this map I have prepared: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=216964160085301336314.0004aad568cf832b0bd74msa=0 it is also linked on several places on the Wikimania Wiki. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH

Re: [Wikimania-l] Change of time for second IRC meeting

2012-04-13 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 13.04.2012 18:30, schrieb Deryck Chan: Right, it's fixed at Saturday 14th, 14 UTC! (21h30 from now!) ok, just in case - I confirm my presence for Saturday 14th, 14 UTC! /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 73, Issue 15

2012-04-13 Thread Manuel Schneider
AND Sunday 15 UTC? The teams and jury members should decide for at least one of the times. I know this is far from optimal but maybe we could keep both meetings short then so it will work? At least work better than now? /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 73, Issue 15

2012-04-13 Thread Manuel Schneider
-- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimania-l] IRC public meeting

2012-04-04 Thread Manuel Schneider
...@gmail.comescreveu: Would any member of the jury be kind enough to confirm the time (and expected duration if possible) of the IRC public meeting this Saturday? Thanks. -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations

2012-01-12 Thread Manuel Schneider
appreciate this and accept the fact that not everything can be done immediately and after a strict schedule. Thanks for taking care of this. Maybe let us have a discussion on Wikimania 2012 on a jury selection process for the future. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations

2012-01-09 Thread Manuel Schneider
could / should take over. Regards, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l

Re: [Wikimania-l] -- WikiDragon alert

2011-10-23 Thread Manuel Schneider
into the bid pages you easily get a picture which bid is more seroius than others. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

Re: [Wikimania-l] CD

2011-08-22 Thread Manuel Schneider
It is - Wikimania is July 10th - 15th (counting Hacking Days and Unconference) while Ramadan starts at July 19th. On 22.08.2011 10:17, Deryck Chan wrote: I think Wikimania 2012 is before Ramadan. -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH

Re: [Wikimania-l] Videos!

2011-08-16 Thread Manuel Schneider
Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimania-l] Videos!

2011-08-16 Thread Manuel Schneider
On 16.08.2011 09:27, Lodewijk wrote: See the relevant thread on foundation-l for more information. can you forward that please? There are too many mailinglist and not everybody reads everyone... /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens

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

2011-08-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
/Handbook /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikimania-l] CD

2011-08-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
though I needed two shuttles between Terminal 1 and 3 and the two sepcial interrogations. So don't worry ;-) /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

[Wikimania-l] Arrangements for Wikimedia Offline Session today

2011-08-05 Thread Manuel Schneider
from Malayallam Wikipedia * me from openZIM See you there! If you have questions or want to coordinate in advance - please contact me. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge

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

2011-08-04 Thread Manuel Schneider
then. That's it. If you need to know something just ask Danny or me. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

Re: [Wikimania-l] Prepaid SIM card for calls and internet?

2011-07-26 Thread Manuel Schneider
Orangen play. I tried now to check the current conditions but I can't find this plan on their website anymore, just the BigTalk plan which is meant for talking while my play SIM card also comes with a data plan. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens

[Wikimania-l] Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces Wikimania

2011-07-26 Thread Manuel Schneider
controls should recognize their government's website... /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimania-l] About the Wikimania 2011: Important Information for your Upcoming Participation

2011-07-23 Thread Manuel Schneider
, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimania-l] About the Wikimania 2011: Important Information for your Upcoming Participation

2011-07-23 Thread Manuel Schneider
Coordination]]''' - check when your friends arrive and leave, organise joint trips from / to the airport. *** If you like to organise in groups list yourself here: http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees/Travel_Coordination /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur

Re: [Wikimania-l] About the Wikimania 2011: Important Information for your Upcoming Participation

2011-07-23 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hoi, Am 24.07.2011 01:14, schrieb Lodewijk: is there any specific reason why your time tables only start at 8? (since a lot of flights arrive way before that - I'm for example arriving around 3am) of course not - just add it, sorry for that. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider

Re: [Wikimania-l] About the Wikimania 2011: Important Information for your Upcoming Participation

2011-07-22 Thread Manuel Schneider
and prepared. I always look forward to Wikimania and this year is shaping up to be the benchmark conference that everyone compares subsequent Wikimanias to for years to come :-) -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association

Re: [Wikimania-l] About the Wikimania 2011: Important Information for your Upcoming Participation

2011-07-22 Thread Manuel Schneider
* 1.4 MIME_QP_LONG_LINE RAW: Quoted-printable line longer than 76 chars -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l

Re: [Wikimania-l] About the Wikimania 2011: Important Information for your Upcoming Participation

2011-07-22 Thread Manuel Schneider
On 22.07.2011 18:49, Deryck Chan wrote: [begin joke] BDS et al. have really gone very far to discourage us from attending Wikimania Haifa :) [/end joke] luckily it happened to me - there is no way of discouraging me from attending Wikimania ;-) -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH

[Wikimania-l] Pre-Wikimania Activities - July 29th / August 1st

2011-07-20 Thread Manuel Schneider
, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimania-l] global south strategy meeting, 2011-08-02, wikimania preconf prog

2011-06-30 Thread Manuel Schneider
the talk and ask some useful questions. Dror K ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens

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

2011-01-24 Thread Manuel Schneider
Full support - I really don't want to miss the annual Wikimania and instead think - and also know, due to several requests from DE, AT and CH - that local communities, people that never went to Wikimania and maybe never will, want to have these comunity conferences. Manuel Schneider Sent via

Re: [Wikimania-l] Videos from Gdansk

2011-01-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
iStream regularly until they reply. -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l

[Wikimania-l] Google Map with all Wikimania locations

2011-01-08 Thread Manuel Schneider
* venue * hotels * dorms * tour sites The only thing I am missing right now is the beach, because I don't know which one we are going to. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge

Re: [Wikimania-l] Gdansk videos .. we were all deceived!

2010-10-31 Thread Manuel Schneider
, anything constructive is welcome to go through. Hope this helps! -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing

Re: [Wikimania-l] Videos from Gdansk

2010-10-13 Thread Manuel Schneider
not here, at least :-( Marcin? Am 13.10.2010 15:55, schrieb Zugravu Gheorghe: still no news about the recording from the conference? -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge

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

2010-08-12 Thread Manuel Schneider
that the organisers consider that. I am working on that, see http://wikimaniateam.wikimedia.org/wiki/2011/Technics/Webconferencing If we can actually do it depends on many parameters which I will check beginning of September by myself in Haifa, so please bear with me. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel

[Wikimania-l] LOST: Flash

2010-07-11 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hej there, if you happen to find a black pocket with a flash in it, it belongs to User:DR. Please but it to the reception. If found after the conference it could go with someone to Germany, Dmitrij lives there. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien

[Wikimania-l] Dinner w/o soccer tonight - tomorrow group planning

2010-07-11 Thread Manuel Schneider
People who want to have dinner with other Wikimania folks but NOT want to watch soccer meet at 19:45 at the main entrance (outside). If you want to do something tomorrow - we would eg. like to go to the beach and also see Gdansk ancient town so please meet me there as well to coordinate a

Re: [Wikimania-l] wheres the beach?

2010-07-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
If you can respect us having a carraige with a baby with us my wife and I would be very happy if we could spend some time with nice folks, see the area and relax from our duties at Wikimania. /Manuel -- Urspr. Mitt. -- Betreff: [Wikimania-l] wheres the beach? Von: fdschin fdsc...@arcor.de

Re: [Wikimania-l] Streaming options for wikimania panels/talks etc

2010-07-08 Thread Manuel Schneider
/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimania-l] wifi connections

2010-07-08 Thread Manuel Schneider
this helps someone. --Takashi ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH

Re: [Wikimania-l] Streaming options for wikimania panels/talks etc

2010-07-08 Thread Manuel Schneider
to upload the files to Commons. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l

Re: [Wikimania-l] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated information regarding accommodations

2010-07-08 Thread Manuel Schneider
___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Regards Manuel

Re: [Wikimania-l] Local phone numbers for communication

2010-07-07 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Peter, when you arrive at Gdansk Glowny (main station) there is a Orange shop just across the street, a bit right you see a shopping mall, there next the entrance to the mall. The offer a prepaid card that allows usage for both phone calls and internet. They sell the SIM with 20 zl in the

Re: [Wikimania-l] biking tour gdansk

2010-07-07 Thread Manuel Schneider
@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimania-l] Local phone numbers for communication

2010-07-04 Thread Manuel Schneider
take the 50 zl one. /Manuel Am 03.07.2010 23:42, schrieb masti: On 07/03/2010 09:17 PM, Manuel Schneider wrote: Thanks Samuel! Does someone know about data usage on prepaid cards in Poland? I am interested in getting a prepaid card in Poland for my smartphone to do both calls and sending

Re: [Wikimania-l] Council of Chapters Meeting

2010-07-04 Thread Manuel Schneider
/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimania-l] Accommodation

2010-07-03 Thread Manuel Schneider
As you name it: I know that the registration confirmation mails have been sent yesterday, but I still haven't received something. I will start on Monday morning and arrive on Tuesday, with my wife and 9 month old son what I have pointed out on the registration form. While I personally am

Re: [Wikimania-l] Local phone numbers for communication

2010-07-03 Thread Manuel Schneider
Thanks Samuel! Does someone know about data usage on prepaid cards in Poland? I am interested in getting a prepaid card in Poland for my smartphone to do both calls and sending/receiving mails. /Manuel -- Urspr. Mitt. -- Betreff: Re: [Wikimania-l] Local phone numbers for communication Von:

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Foundation-l] Floating a notion: permanent Wikimania committee?

2010-06-18 Thread Manuel Schneider
. What do you all think? best, Phoebe ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimania-l] submission - 111

2010-06-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/9 Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch mailto:manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch: Track acromyns: * PaC - People and Community * KaC - Knowledge and Collaboration * Inf - Infrastructure Acronyms sounds a little bit

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