I wouldn't be too sure of that. You need to consider who the targeted audience is for your feedback. I would guess the organizers of the coming year(s). So a postmortem would make most sense on the wikimaniateamwiki (yes, another internal wiki). I had in 2008 for example much use of the program committee postmortem documentation of 2007 in Taiwan - even though it was not public. As long as it reaches the right people. It is a lot of effort to make a public version in some cases, and then I really dont see the point of obligating people to make such a version - especially if the consequence of that is that the chance they actually will do that, decreases.
Lodewijk 2010/6/21 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> > On 21 June 2010 22:25, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you don't allow for private discussion and post-mortems within a group > of > > people, then the likelyhood of effective management and feedback > decreases. > > This is not because the Wikimania team is being secretive, but because > > talking only amongst yourselves that know each other best gives a place > to > > air honest feedback in a way that would not happen if that feeback > between > > the team was forced to be public. Furthermore, there is sensitive > > information about things like sponsors, finances, relationships between > > people that simply don't need to be made public as it would cause more > harm > > than good. Every chapter has a private executive channel, and even the > > Wikimedia movement has an internal mailing list - none of these imply > that > > the rest of the community is "external" but simply that some things are > best > > kept private. Furthermore, you can't actually force people to talk in > > public, all you do is drive it underground turning what is a legitimate > > internal discusison into a cabal. > > The discussion can happen in private, but the results need to be > public or there is really no point. The people discussing it will > probably never run a Wikimania again, so they don't really need to > know what did and didn't work. Anything that needs to be confidential > can be redacted from the public version and the un-redacted version > only shared with people that specifically need to know (teams > organising future Wikimanias, and maybe those bidding to organise > them). > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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