On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:19, Craig Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > I won't be attending Wikimania 2011, but it's not because of any objections > to the policies of the Israeli government, more because I simply won't be > able to get the time off work! In any case, the conference is not being set > up by the Israeli government, it's being set up by a crew of fantastic > Wikimedians who have done a wonderful job of setting up the conference and > making it as accessible as possible for everybody. They deserve to be > congratulated for that, rather than sniped at by anonymous cowards and > newcomers who have never been seen around these parts before.
I wanted to say something similar: Conference is being set up by great folk from WM IL, who are admired by all Muslim Wikimedians with whom I talked in Gdansk. Besides that, I know that some of them don't support actions of Israeli authorities. Calling for boycott of Wikimania in Haifa is calling for discrimination of group of humans simply because of their citizenship. And I don't think that the right method to fight discrimination is to make one more. _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
