-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Florence Devouard wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have spent some time in the last 3-4 days looking around, trying to > dig information about what was happening about Wikimania. > > First, I would like to say that I am very excited Wikimania will be in > Taipei. Not only because it will be a great opportunity to see Taiwan. > But also because I see Wikimania as a extraordinary opportunity for the > editors to get to know others better. This is already happening, when I > see editors from Taiwan, from Germany, from the USA, from France, > working together to make that event happen. > > I have rather little helped preparing Wikimania in the previous years. > But I was a participant. And I had a great time. Wikimania is probably > the most important event of the year for the community. It is the moment > when people can meet and can talk together. This is a fabulous experience. > > Right now, I am sure that for some of you, it appears tiring and > difficult. I am sure that you sometimes lack courage, because it is a > lot of work, few people see you doing it, sometimes trying to find a > sponsor does not succeed. But if you look at it, the conference is > getting a little bit more real everyday. > > So, keep faith (you are welcome to tell me the same when I am lacking > courage myself). > > The Foundation will help as much as possible on its part. > > Erik is currently involved in the program. I read the notes of the last > meeting and it looks as if things are moving nicely. > > I will have a look on the budget with Theodoranian and all those > involved in it in a few days. > It seems Frances, Tzu-chiang and Alice are working hard on the > sponsorships. Danny from the Foundation will also bring some help to get > some more sponsors. Pyb is also willing to give a hand. > What I hope is that we can have more money this year, so as to help more > people to join. > > Registration seems to be the hot topic of the moment. I suggest that > once registration system is open, we could not only mention it on lists, > but also on the Foundation website, and possibly inform the sign post > and Walter from wikizine to reach a larger audience. I am willing to > help you here if necessary. We need visitors from everywhere :-) > > According to the website, it seems that venue is having hard time. Would > it help to ask for more volunteers ? > I intend to give you more information probably within 2 weeks for when > the board meeting will take place (probably before Wikimania). But this > is a detail. > > I'll try to stick around so as to see how I can help. But essentially, > thank you for the great work. > > Anthere > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
Good message, I think registration should be done a bit faster, a lot of people right now need visas to enter Taiwan and for people in Third world countries it can be a month or two of waiting. Regards, - -- Ing. Damian Finol Ingeniero en Informática Caracas, Venezuela. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF1m41BJnO54tRUmoRAuDAAKCYyxqR017nQM1nmGF2s+GEjsGgQwCfduB8 3EYXWHmVW/GNSekYDCAfPQc= =TJFc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
