Re: [Wikimania-l] Registration and Accommodations available for Wikimania '15

2015-05-27 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi Sebastian, from what I've gleaned by fiddling with the dates, the special rates are only available from July 12th onwards. If you arrive before Sunday, you'll have to make two separate bookings (although the rates at Hotel One stay pretty much stay the same). Philip On 27 May 2015 at 12:01,

Re: [Wikimania-l] videos of keynotes/plenaries?

2015-07-28 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Thanks Andrew, very much appreciated! On 28 July 2015 at 11:02, Andrew Lih and...@andrewlih.com wrote: Hi all, there are some Wikimania 2015 videos available now, guerrilla style: As you may know, there was no central video recording of Wikimania sessions this year. But with my own

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

2015-08-10 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi, when can we expect the missing videos from the auditorium to be uploaded to Commons? There already some videos of the conference viewable at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2015_presentation_videos , but especially Sunday's presentations still seem to be missing.

Re: [Wikimania-l] UEFA Euro 2016

2016-06-22 Thread Philip Kopetzky
I would be more interested in playing football at Wikimania, if someone's interested ;-) On 22 June 2016 at 16:59, Dennis Tobar wrote: > Yesterday, the pizzeria has shown (in silence or muted mode) the match > Spain-Croatia (congrats Croatia for winning the group!). > >

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania - annually, with South Africa in 2018?

2016-07-11 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi Josh, way more representatives from various chapters attended the chairperson's meeting, including from developing countries. Everyone in the room agreed to writing the (open) letter, but it's up to the individual chapters to actually sign it afterwards. The letter was communicated to the

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

2016-10-18 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Did I miss something or why are we now discussing solutions to problems that we haven't even started to discuss yet? Have we or the "committee" come up with any ideas on what and who Wikimania should be for before rushing headlong into planning 2018? On 18 October 2016 at 00:10, Pine W

Re: [Wikimania-l] Friendly Space Policy (was: Sad news)

2018-07-30 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Guys, can you please take any discussion among you white males to Wikimedia-l if you still feel the need to discuss this amongst you? You can't force a public debate, especially wheb Asaf and Lilli have already stated the obvious. On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, 08:39 Ilario Valdelli, wrote: > Hi all, > >

[Wikimania-l] Re: Wikimania 2024 will be hosted in …

2023-03-20 Thread Philip Kopetzky
I can only second what Jan-Bart has written. There already seems to be a change in the way people attend Wikimania. Many communities from Europe won't send anyone to Singapore, but will probably attend Krakow. Wouldn't it be time to acknowledge the change in format towards a regional conference