[Wikimediach-l] Wikipedia-Day, speakers
There was still an ongoing discussion here on this list about whom to invite as speaker. Now as far as I understand, Jimbo won't be available, as he is in Göttingen at that time. Proposal: We could also invite another European board member (Angela or Anthere) and ask them, whether they would want to give a speech. What do you think of that? BTW: Robin: Have you got a definitive answer from Prof. Meyer? -- Regards Michael Bimmler ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikipedia Day news
Well, I was talking about Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:57:14 -0500 (http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediach-l/2006-February/000283.html) I don't think, that I have written another mail since. But if you think, it's worth asking once more, I'm certainly not against it. However, when he takes the second ICE you mentioned and is 18.15 at HB it might get a bit late (well, we can also expand the event to the evening if we want...) Regards Michael On 2/26/06, Robin Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, actually he already wrote in his last email that he would not be able to attend (after we made proposal about fixing his schedule. So I'm not so sure which new arguments we have at the moment that could persuade him. But I might have missed something (away in holidays last week) As far as I understand it, we have no reply to your (Michael) mail Re: [Wikimediach-l] Re: Swiss Wikipedia Day 2006 - Invitation It is not absolutely impossible to hold a speech in Göttingen and in Zurich the same day. He could take the ICE in Göttingen at 10:17 and be in GEP 16:15. If we are flexible even the 12:17 train would work. Jimbo could be in GEP by 18:15. Maybe it's worth asking a second time. Regards Robin ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l -- Regards Michael Bimmler ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikipedia Day news
On 2/23/06, Robin Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody Mr. Meyer is basically willing to join Wikimedia Day. He will give a definitive answer end of next week. Great! Michael, would you again ask if Jimmy Wales could fix his schedule for June 17th? Hm, actually he already wrote in his last email that he would not be able to attend (after we made proposal about fixing his schedule. So I'm not so sure which new arguments we have at the moment that could persuade him. But I might have missed something (away in holidays last week) -- Regards Michael Bimmler ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikipedia Day - location
2006/1/31, Manuel Schneider [Everything Open] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you all for your work - I've now listed the Wikipedia Day 2006 in the OSS Raodmap which will be available online and printed. Thanks a lot to you and thanks a lot to Robin for finding the location! Greets, Regards Michael Manuel -- - All-Things-Open Projektgruppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM d-- s:- a? C++$ UL P+ L+++$ E- W+++$ N+ o-- K- w--$ O+ M+ V PS+ PE- Y+ PGP+ t 5 X R UF !tv b+ DI D+ G+ e h r y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l -- An eternity is very, very long, especially towards the end ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikipedia Day - decided?
As now a lot of people expressed their willingness to come (and help) at June 17th, can we regard this date as being fixed, so that Manuel could inform ch-open directory about this? If I don't get any complains I will add it this evening. Is the location already fixed? Micheal, please giv me any response. Greets, Manuel -- - All-Things-Open Projektgruppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.all-things-open.org/ --- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM d-- s:- a? C++$ UL P+ L+++$ E- W+++$ N+ o-- K- w--$ O+ M+ V PS+ PE- Y+ PGP+ t 5 X R UF !tv b+ DI D+ G+ e h r y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikipedia day/Patronage VIS ETH / fix a date
Robin Schwab wrote: Now it's up to you to decide. What just crossed my mind: If we want a really prominent person for a speech (e.g. Jimbo) we would definitely need to ask him first, when he has time capacity. I mean otherwise we decide on June the xyth and then Jimbo/the prominent guest says Oh what a pity, on June xyth I can't come but it would have been possible one week later. So as we only have 5 days left, we would need to *very quickly* ask the relevant people when they would have time. Regards Michael -- -- An eternity is very, very long, especially towards the end ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikipedia day/Patronage VIS ETH / fix a date
2006/1/24, Robin Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What just crossed my mind: If we want a really prominent person for a speech (e.g. Jimbo) we would definitely need to ask him first, when he has time capacity. I mean otherwise we decide on June the xyth and then Jimbo/the prominent guest says Oh what a pity, on June xyth I can't come but it would have been possible one week later. So as we only have 5 days left, we would need to *very quickly* ask the relevant people when they would have time. I'm glad you address this topic and you're perfectly right. To me, it's not that important to have these really prominent people although it would be nice if someone could come. I wouldn't spend 1000 CHF for a flight for Jimbo (I hope e forgives me if he sees this). If we try to get multiple persons it's impossible fix a date that's fine for everybody. I don't think that you would need to pay him a flight... (Angela/Delphine: You can definitely inform us here can't you?) Instead I would ask some medium prominent people like Bertrand Meyer (and I hope he forgives me this term too) *after* fixing the date. As he is in Switzerland (working very close to GEP) he might hold a speech for a nice present and some drinks. Isn't this the man in whose WP-entry somebody announced his death while he was still living. I'm not so sure whether he likes WIkipedia so much at the moment. Do you know further persons we could invite for a speech? Hm, question is whether we want people from the Open-Source-Szene (there Manuel knows maybe a few names) or other people from a Bildungsumfeld. Michael Regards Robin ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l -- An eternity is very, very long, especially towards the end ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikipedia day/Patronage VIS ETH / fix a date
Isn't this the man in whose WP-entry somebody announced his death while he was still living. I'm not so sure whether he likes WIkipedia so much at the moment. He's known as a good friend of WP: http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/wikipedia/wikipedia.pdf Do you know further persons we could invite for a speech? Hm, question is whether we want people from the Open-Source-Szene (there Manuel knows maybe a few names) or other people from a Bildungsumfeld. Best would be a mixture of both. Maybe some of us could hold speeches about working in WP. By the way: We could ask Christian Seidl. Regards Robin ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
Re: [Wikimediach-l] Wikipedia Day - Date - new proposal
It seems to be a good decision. In my experience (but I've worked a lot with Germany and Italy and not with Swiss companies) all I have fixed in August was after delayed. In any case IMHO it is important, at moment, to fix only a deadline and a period, the date can be fixed some months before verifying the avalaibility of seat, avalaibility of persons and more. Ilario Michael Bimmler wrote: Hello, I just remarked, that I am actually not so in favour of the last saturday of holidays for the following two reasons: 1. People are a) still in holidays b) just coming back c)tired, want to relax a bit before start etc. 2. A lot of people that we need to get in touch with some weeks before the events will be on holidays during july/early august. This probably includes universitiy employees as well as the responsibles for the places where we want to advertise. 3, During the short Swiss summer, people will spend *a lot* of their free time (especially Saturdays) in public swimming baths (blame leo for this term), e.g. in the lake. I doubt whether anybody would want to be on a hot day (last day of holidays or even last summer weekend) in a room, listening to presentations or working with computers. When it's hot, people in CH want to be outside, swimming, barbecueing and so on. Therefore I nominate a date in the second half of september (e.g. Sat Sept 23), then it won't be so hot and sunny anymore, people won't be swimming anymore and may rather come during the day (remark, we are not talking about the evening) that in the middle of the short summer. So I'm just afraid, that we decide on a day like the Aug 26th and are then disappointed 'cause the weather guys say that it would be the last sunny weekend in this year and then nobody comes. What do you think? Michael -- An eternity is very, very long, especially towards the end ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
