We weren't surprised with the weather. We actually had perfectly normal days for August in Haifa, even a little better (cooler) than normal.
Thanks everyone for the compliments! Harel Cain Wikimania 2011 local team On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 15:35, James Hare <[email protected]> wrote: > Washington is about as hot as Haifa but *more* humid. > > Sent from my iPhone (sorry for top posting) > > On Aug 8, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM, KIZU Naoko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 > >> > > +1 indeed. Wikimania 2011 was an awesome conference. Everything the > > organizers could control came close to perfection; they did a great > > job. The only thing you guys couldn't do was avoid the Wikimania Heat > > Curse, but that's hardly your fault :) > > > > In particular, the high-profile Israeli speakers you attracted were > > great. I forget their names, but the talks from Prof. Benkler (sp? I > > mean the Harvard prof) and the Knesset committee chair were very good. > > > > (I hear Washington is gonna be about as hot as Haifa, albeit with less > > humidity. Wikimania 2013 in Reykjavik? Maybe we can make peace with > > the volcano that way too. :D) > > > >> You the team rocks. Not only the conference in general I mean here - > >> you guys could have ignored some petty minor requests and inquires > >> just saying "it's out of our business" "we're busy". Sometimes I even > >> felt guilty to see your team's quick responses to the list and > >> elsewhere. > > I experienced the same thing: after asserting on identi.ca and Twitter > > that WM11 would have streaming, I got 3 or 4 replies from different > > organizers correcting me and apologizing for the lack of streaming, > > all in a few hours. Special thanks in this category to Danny B, who > > gave me the impression he had made it his personal mission to look > > after me, getting me water when I was presenting and polaroid pictures > > at the party, even though I'm sure he was plenty busy with other > > things. > > > > I wish the WM11 team lots of recovery sleep after what I'm sure has > > been an exhausting week, and the WM12 team the best of luck trying to > > live up to this excellent example. > > > > Roan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimania-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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