Great! We are starting to have the conversation we need to have!
So: What is the purpose of the Wikimedia Conference?
This has never been clearly defined, in my view.
I certainly found attending last year useful as it was a chance to get to
know face-to-face people I only knew over email, to
On 02/04/2014, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
Great! We are starting to have the conversation we need to have!
So: What is the purpose of the Wikimedia Conference?
This has never been clearly defined, in my view.
I certainly found attending last year useful as it was a
Point of information and a comment:
This year 2 members of the FDC will attend the conference as representatives of
the FDC. The full FDC will not be attending any part of Wikimedia Conference
this year because the date of the FDC meeting do not align with the conference.
Next year if
Hi,
To provide some perspective. The Board of Trustees has traditionally had its
Board meeting at the Wikimedia Conference. This year is the first year we
decide to change that and have our board meeting a couple of weeks later so
that we could actually attend the sessions and have more
I am genuinely puzzled as to why, if nobody on the WMUK board (such as
the CEO or the current Chairman) is sure what the purpose of the
conference is, they should chose to invest the donor's money in
sending 5 trustees and 3 full time employees to it (presumably the
employees are being
Yes, finally the discussion we need! Pity that it happens only one week
before the conference itself.
My point of view:
We have different types of conference: GLAMCamp, EduWiki, Wikimania,
whatever.
Beside Wikimania, which is quite a fruit salad of topics and themes and
seen as *the* gathering
I'm not sure that people think the conference is unnecessary; I think it
has value. It is, however, the only one of all those listed for
which almost everyone is explicitly excluded and cannot attend - even
though I can think of several who have strong interest in movement
governance and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AFuture_of_the_Wikimedia_Conferencediff=5611433oldid=5611349
imo.
Vince
2014-04-02 20:32 GMT+02:00 Cornelius Kibelka jckibe...@gmail.com:
Yes, finally the discussion we need! Pity that it happens only one week
before the conference
What the purpose of this discussion? The program committee already
scheduled a session about the future of the WMCON. And as we are a week
before, and I believe it's too late to cancel flights and hotels booking,
nothing will probably going to be changed, even if there will be consensus
about the
Itzik, I am sorry that I did not reply to this earlier. I am just kind
of baffled that we are having this discussion now, months after all
these questions where asked (see Future of the Wikimedia Conference)
and all the information about the scope and the slight loosening of
the attendee ratio
While I don't think this discussion should change the process or the
attendance for this specific conference, particularly as it is just around
the corner, it would be useful to take some of these points into
consideration for future planning.
Risker/Anne
On 2 April 2014 17:08, Nicole Ebber
Right, sorry, what I meant was that these arguments can be collected
for the preparation of the Future of the WMCON session at WMCON
itself, not for changing the current setting.
Nicole
On 2 April 2014 23:14, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
While I don't think this discussion should change
I appreciate your clarification, Nicole - thanks.
There is a certain irony in the fact that those who are making the argument
that there should be some rethinking of the future of the WMCON are all (as
best I can tell) people who will not be present. I hope that those who are
present will be
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