Note that everyone is very welcome to contribute program and speaker ideas; we are especially looking for excellent speakers from the Middle East & Africa.
There's a page to brainstorm ideas here: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas And more volunteers are always welcome to help out. That said, it's generally prudent to try and coordinate formal invitations to the conference, which is just one of the many tasks of the Wikimania program committee :) best, Phoebe On Feb 5, 2008 12:33 PM, Cary Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon, > > While we appreciate your efforts, please note that you are not > authorized to send mail out on behalf of the Wikimania organizers. > > Please, discuss emails like this with the committee before you send them > in the future. > > I am copying Mr. Berners-Lee to ask him to kindly please disregard your > email. > > Thank you. > > Cary Bass > Volunteer Coordinator > Wikimedia Foundation > > > simonpedia wrote: > > Dear Tim (Berners-Lee), > > > > I'm writing to you on behalf of the organising committee for Wikimania. > > This is the annual conference for the Wikimedia Foundation. Don't think > > I need to tell yo what they do.No.8 on Alexa's top 500. > > > > Yes, please; a talk. Just half an hour at most. We'd (all right, I) > > would really like some insight into what you where thinking when you did > > the first prop to CERN's management about your "Information Management" > > idea in . And what prop you would offer them today. > > > > The audience is WMF's universe, which is just starting to grow now as > > their Head Office have, literally, just moved to San Fran and employed a > > whole bunch of new recruits. So they are really looking for some ideas > > about what should be their next steps. > > > > > > > > Alexandria's a long way, but please don't let that stop you. I'm sure we > > could organise a link between your present (Uni) home and Egypt's new > > National Library's auditorium. In fact I'd like to encourage it as it > > might help to get the information centric to reconsider their > > communication's networking. I'm trying to see of we could strap together > > a mini-megaconference. http://digitalunion.osu.edu/megaconference/ > > > > And to be quite blunt, we need a headline act. (no guitar required) > > > > If you are interested, these are some other ideas floating around the > > WMF traps. http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas > > > > We could see about a global workshop if you wanted to suggest something > > interesting. > > > > Appreciate your interest, and your time. If you'd like to say yea or > > nay, just a reply on this list would encourage people who don't believe > > God's talk. > > > > Obsequiously yours, > > > > Simon Fenton- Jones > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
