Well, I happen to disagree. We already held 3 wikimanias, and I think a big part of their success was because it was organized by wikipedians from every part of the planet. Of course, there was always more local people involved, but there was not ONLY local people; When it comes to the very practical organization (such as accomodations, decoration of the rooms and other renting of microphone, it is cleaer the local team will be first on the front and it makes sense to choose meeting times which primarily fit with their schedule.
However, when it comes to stuff like program, international involvement is expected and priority should be given to accomodating as many of people as possible. If that involves making smaller action groups or rotating hours of meetings, so be it. We will never be able to satisfy everyone. But we can make efforts. Ant Smart Robots wrote: > Hi there, > > Since Egypt is the country which will hold the wikimania for 2008 so I > think it's so wisely from Mido to adjust the time according to egypt > timing as the volunteers ( that will organize it ) can easily be founded > , I know these meetings have participations from all over the world. > > No offense > And this is not official I am just a subscriber !! > > */Aphaia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: > > Corr. > > for me 5am, for Titan (and KJ) 4am. > While I know some people like this hour (e.g. Board election debate, > ComProj meetings), I am worried this tendency to hold Wikimedia > relation around 18-20 UTC, moreover to say it "hour good for everyone" > (while Mido didn't call it so wisely). Simply there is no such hour > which is good for everyone. > > Again, time rotation is the best solution in my opinion. > > On Dec 10, 2007 11:42 AM, Aphaia wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2007 11:22 AM, E wrote: > > > Exactly, it's 4am here in Australia... possibly 20:00UTC would be > > > preferable. > > > > Not really: 20UTC is for me 4am. > > > > > > - E > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimania-l mailing list > > > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > KIZU Naoko > > http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) > > Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD > > > > > > -- > KIZU Naoko > http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) > Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
