Dear colleagues,
Thank you to all who volunteered to serve on programme team[1].
Continuing my informal facilitation of this team, I will be contacting the
team off-list to schedule a kick-off call to discuss how to go about
planning this event, so as to maximize the benefit to the movement. My
Reminder: We'd like to finalize the Wikimedia Conference 2015 Program Team
by Nov 10th. If you'd like to help craft a high-quality program to make
sure we make the most of this important (and expensive) face-to-face
opportunity, do sign up!
Details here:
2014-10-21 3:40 GMT+02:00 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org:
Neither I nor WMF are trying to exert undue control over this process;
rather, I am moving this forward in good faith and relying on other people
to be equally bold in editing (or reverting!) anything I've stated there.
Looking
On 10/16/2014 04:22 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
Hello, everyone.
Weeks go by, and the previous conversation was throughly derailed, so out
of a profound interest in ensuring a high-value event, I am bringing this
up again: we[3] *need to make progress* with planning the
Hi,
I can speak only in a personal capacity.
My occasional readings of information about WMCH have been positive. I
anticipate that visa problems will be no greater than they were at
Wikimania London. The admittedly limited information about the bid sounds
reasonable, as far as it goes. I assume
imo (but maybe I'm sitting on the wrong direction on this horse) but once
we have a program it can be installed to any suitable location.
I think it would be great moving that way. WMF and a few chapters have
dedicated people for event organizing, why not use them. Bidding would be
then for
I have updated the page on meta to reflect this decision. [1]
Next item on the list: determine program committee.
Could we agree on having James Hare as program committee lead?
Cheers,
Ad
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Conference_2015diff=10222147oldid=9841671
Hello, everyone.
Weeks go by, and the previous conversation was throughly derailed, so out
of a profound interest in ensuring a high-value event, I am bringing this
up again: we[3] *need to make progress* with planning the
