Dear Moushira and all, With reference to Moushira's note below, I believe that you and your team really did a wonderful job. Believe me, I have been to four other conferences this last year--2 of them were international--and, in my view, the Wikimania one was better than the four of them in terms of organization, among other things. I and other presenters were not even able to access the wireless network except rarely in one of these. So, good job, and I am sure that those Wikipedians who have seen the Pyramids, Sphinx, and temples in Luxor, etc. have very much enjoyed them. For me, it was a great venue where I met many people who are working on Arabic open source stuff, translation, etc. whom I could never have met elsewhere.
Cheers, --Muhammad >I just signed up to the list to drop a few lines to the long thread of > emails entitled: Re:Comments :). I believe I do not have much to say after > all that was said, I can just clarify few points, but first: Majorly, I am > sorry to hear that your experience in the country that hosted Wikimania 2008 > was that harsh, and I wish you a pleasant experience in the future > Wikimanias. I wish the team could have made it better to you by any means, > but I am afraid we have no control over Egyptian culture! I am sorry. Hint: > The families that you used to see near by BA premises; they do not live or > reside there and they are not homeless. They are patients and patients > families that make it early to the public hospital that is next doors to the > library. They are mostly from country side, travel long miles to reach their > early, and they are too many that mostly the hospital does not occupy them. > A local debate has long been taking place on the relocation of the hospital, > but after all they are patients, they are harmless, and this is mostly how > things are in our side of the world.. > > On Wi-Fi: I am sorry if anyone had problems with getting connected, this is > mostly for the uneven distribution of users; the access point of B1 was > mostly occupied, while the one on entrance level and the level before had > room for plenty of IPs. Relocating could have helped..I am sorry if that was > not made clear on site, and I apologize and am sorry if anyone suffered with > getting connected. > > Effeietsanders: Press Conference video is available along with other > sessions here<http://www.bibalex.org/isis/Frontend/archive/Archive_Movie.aspx> > > Wishing Patricio and his team all best of luck with Wikimania2009.. > > Best Regards, > Moushira > -- Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, PhD Student Dept. of Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA www.mumageed.blogspot.com > ****************************************** _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
