Hiya, On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Muhammad Yahia <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't want to get into this useless debate, but I have minor corrections: > >> >> there were Israelis among the bid team and the sponsors. > > There were no Israelis on the bidding team.
True, Dror might want to say in jury team. He and I served then as jurors, and I assure you jury team examined and discussed many aspects of each bids in details, but each arguments were purely intended if it would work well for our mission, spreading free knowledge and then strengthening our community and movement aiming to realize that, political issues were out of our scope at all. I hope and believe every other winning bid has been chosen in a same fashion as well this year host city. See you fellow Wikimedians this summer, > >> >> The question of the Arab-Israeli conflict was never raised and it was >> deemed totally irrelevant. > > That's not true, there were questions raised about the safety of Israelis in > Egypt and Egypt's attitude towards Jews, and in the greater context of the > same problem (politicizing Wikimania), there was a huge storm raised about > Human rights record of Egypt, Dictatorship rule in Egypt, treatment of > women, LGBTs rights in Egypt, etc, etc.. The discussion spanned meta, irc > and mailing lists. So, if you are getting only a couple of boycott canvass > messages every now and then, you're lucky :) > -- > Best Regards, > Muhammad Yahia > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
