On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:33 AM, 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!
* Support. ~~~~ Thanks to the organizers for a great conference--I think it went very well! Wikimania always reminds me how awesome the people involved in this crazy thing are, in every role--smart and generous and dedicated and passionate, and of course at least a little bit weird. Thanks to everyone for coming together and making it a success. -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en Wikimedia, Press: [email protected] * Personal: [email protected] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:mindspillage IRC(freenode,OFTC):mindspillage * identi.ca:mindspillage * phone:ask _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
