Hear, hear! On 13 July 2010 16:33, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear organizers (hopefully someone can forward it to those not on this list) > > thank you so much for putting the time and dedication into this years > wikimania. Organizing a conference of this size with attendees who have such > high demands and expectations is as always hard, and I think it deserves an > applause no matter whether some things did not go as planned. > It was a very difficult organizing this year, the bumps in the road were > numerous and I would like to explicitely thank all those volunteers who were > not a part of the bidding team but stepped in when their help was most > needed. Several people who live outside Poland suddenly lived for a few > weeks in an appartment in Gdansk together - leaving their lives for what > they were - and had to make horrible long hours to make the conference to > what it has become. I have deep appreciation for those people and I think it > is quite unique and wonderful to have such a volunteer base to fall back > onto. > But also "the people we did not see" did a tremendous amount of work in the > past weeks. I remember that I slipped a few days before the conference that > it would be nice to have X in the attendee packages, and the next day they > were suddenly arranged! > I dont dare to call out the specific people, being afraid of missing several > - I have only seen so much of it. I do hope to have the opportunity of > seeing many of you irl again soon! > > many hugs, > > Lodewijk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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