On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Kat Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
+1 And again, it's all about the people :) Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
