Thank you everyone for your comments. Just to confirm, we have reduced the registration fees very significantly since taking the decision to go online, and they are now as stated by Anne below. We hope that the new fee level will permit anyone to attend who would be interested to, although if need be I can also take Rajeeb's suggestion to the organising committee and see if it might be possible to provide some financial help where necessary. Anne, many thanks for your sponsorship suggestion, and if something like that were possible it would be really excellent.
All best Mark On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 21:48, Rajeeb <marajoz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > Hope my mail finds you all in the best of health and spirit. It is good > news that the conference is happening and not put off due to the pandemic, > I would like to thank the organizers for taking the conference to 100% > online. > > Though not happy as one needs to pay for the registration fee especially > when the event is online and due to pandemic people are and have lost jobs. > > I would like to request the organizers to give a thought on this matter. > > Namaste, > > Rajeeb. > > On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 13:45, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> While I understand that this could be a concern if it was a large fee, it >> works out to about $13 USD/11 Euros for observer status, and double that >> for presenter status. This does not sound outrageous; it pays for the >> equipment, software, staffing, technical support, and bandwidth, as well as >> the maintenance and storage of presentation materials. Even online >> conferences have some costs, and those costs are often not being absorbed >> by sponsors to the extent that they have been in the past. >> >> It may be worthwhile for the WMF to agree to take a certain number of >> slots and pay for them, and then allot them to people with a significant >> history of translation on our projects on a first come/first served basis; >> honestly, they could support the registration fees for 25 editors for less >> than 500 USD. That's a bargain, especially if they want to shift the focus >> to translation into smaller projects. >> >> I hope that the conference goes well. >> >> Risker/Anne >> >> On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 03:42, Željko Blaće <zbl...@mi2.hr> wrote: >> >>> Also interested in contributing, but registration fee is something that >>> puts me off when approaching academic conferences, especially now when >>> online so much of the cost is reduced. >>> >>> Best - Z. Blace >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:22 AM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l < >>> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Mark, >>>> >>>> This is really interesting. I take care of les sans pagEs community on >>>> fr-wikii and we translate a lot from English, a little from Spanish and >>>> Italian. I would keen to participate, thanks for sharing! >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Nattes à chat >>>> >>>> >>>> Le 27 mai 2021 à 07:47, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH <marks...@hkbu.edu.hk> a >>>> écrit : >>>> >>>> Dear friends and colleagues >>>> >>>> Further to my message at the end of last month and the queries that one >>>> or two of you made, I'd like to notify you of the following: >>>> >>>> 1. the conference will now be 100% online >>>> 2. the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 30th >>>> June 2021 >>>> >>>> Full updated details and Call for Papers can be found on the conference >>>> website at https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/. >>>> >>>> Best regards >>>> >>>> Mark Shuttleworth >>>> >>>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 12:13, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH <marks...@hkbu.edu.hk> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear friends and colleagues >>>>> >>>>> Please permit me to publicise an academic conference that we're >>>>> holding at Hong Kong Baptist University on 15-17 December 2021. >>>>> >>>>> The conference will be an ideal forum in which to discuss research >>>>> methodologies, issues of collaborativity, theoretical frameworks that have >>>>> proven valuable for the study of Wikipedia translation, the use of >>>>> Wikipedia in the translation classroom and by translation professionals, >>>>> and the nature of Wikipedia translation and how it differs not only from >>>>> other more traditional types of translation but also from other newly >>>>> emerging types. 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