Given the fact that we're less than a month away, and we're late enough if not too late, wouldn't a phone call be faster than a letter?
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Harel Cain <harel.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Following up on my latest mail, I'm glad to let you know that we drafted a > letter to Sari Nusseibeh and after final proofreading we hope to send it > out, hopefully today. I'll let you know if something comes out of this. > > > Harel Cain > Wikimania 2011 local team > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 08:41, Harel Cain <harel.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Again, I'm not sure everyone out there in the world is aware of and >> familiar with all the political intricacies of the local situation between >> Israelis and Palestinians and can judge what could easily workout and what >> would not. >> >> Specifically, as I wrote, Sari Nusseibeh was both a kind of embarrassing >> oversight on our part (his name came up in some single thread of discussion >> a year ago, and was forgotten about), but also, in our view, not a very good >> suggestion either, for the reasons I explained (in short: he's a >> politician). I hope Dror Kamir, who speaks fluent Arabic, will try to engage >> him in the few weeks we have left, though I don't have very high >> expectations from this - his name was merely a suggestion, not based on any >> real promise. Let's see. >> >> I'm happy to say we have a couple of young Arab Israeli >> attendees/volunteers, I hope this small number will expand. We also made our >> utmost to try to accommodate the very few seemingly-authentic requests for >> participation we got from the Middle East - from Saudi Arabia and from the >> Gaza Strip, but these people simply never got back to us after a certain >> point in time, despite repeated attempts to contact them. >> >> I must say, again, that there's just so much we can do to increase >> participation from among a group of people whose size is totally unknown >> (apparently, there just aren't many active Wikimedians in the Middle East >> who would consider going to Wikimania - *any* Wikimania, and very few of >> them are Palestinian) and their willingness to participate is a mystery. >> >> We also have a great confernece to prepare for those ~500 people out there >> who are going to attend, and we've been working very hard this past year to >> make sure that's exactly what we'll have. I hope we made a good job at that. >> Actually, I'm sure we did. >> >> >> >> >> Harel Cain >> Wikimania 2011 local team >> >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 02:48, Muhammad Yahia <shipmas...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>>> Harel, this Wikimania is anyway highly influenced by politics, no >>>> matter what we want; which includes this thread. If Sari Nusseibeh is >>>> willing to help, you should take that help. I am sure that he is a >>>> reasonable person, who would try to avoid making possible problems to >>>> us. >>>> >>>> >>> Small Disclaimer here: I don't know the guy personally, I got his name >>> from contacts of contacts. Thus I can't vouch for his willingness to help. I >>> think there is a big chance he will be though. >>> -- >>> Best Regards, >>> Muhammad Yahia >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. >> > > > > -- > Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- Best Regards, Muhammad Yahia
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