Here's a thought. I stayed at what the conference called the Senate dorms, yet 
I see nothing on campus that indicates that it was called that. Yes, the term 
"Senate Dorms" does appear at the bus stop, and there is a Senate House nearby, 
but the dorms themselves aren't labeled as such, nor is that name on any of the 
direction signs or maps as far as I could tell. This hasn't caused much real 
trouble but it did prove to be somewhat confusing.

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On Aug 9, 2011, at 9:07 PM, KIZU Naoko <[email protected]> wrote:

> Corner picking from Haifa (yet)
> 
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Nemo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2011/8/9 Delphine Ménard
>>> 
>>> * Moderation in the sessions: Have a _seasoned_ moderator in each
>>> room. Someone whose only job it is to cut short presentations that are
>>> too long, who can moderate discussions/questions if there is a need.
>>> Someone nasty ;).
>>> 
>> 
>> I agree, I heard about a couple of problems because of the lack of such a
>> moderator.
>> I'd add to his tasks (or the tasks of whoever else from the staff stays in
>> the room all the time) to grab a copy of each presentation slides, to be
>> uploaded to Commons or wikimaniawiki if the license is not suitable for some
>> reason. Presenters quite often don't know how to upload to our wikis, or how
>> to convert the files in the right format, or they just forget it.
> 
> +1
> I'd love to add that moderators however are not necessarily chosen
> from the organizing team. Many Wikimaniacs have offered this kind of
> help and will: it's anyway just a time keeping, no difficult task at
> all, specially if the moderators are not required to introduce
> speakers' bios. For the future organizers: if you find no enough
> moderators until the conference, just fetch some early comers before
> the date and ask them. It has worked for years. You will be able just
> to remind someone who you've known on that they'd sure love to
> moderate so-and-so a track :D
> 
> BTW the small handbook within the badge was including nice. I hope it
> becomes our new tradition. :) There were some typos though, if it had
> been errata somewhere, either online or in venue, it had been nicer.
> 
>> 
>> On 9 August 2011 16:44, church.of.emacs.ml  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just a quick general reminder:
>>> If you send feedback to the mailing list, please also add it on
>>> http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback
>>> 
>>> Also, if you notice something crucial is missing in the Wikimania
>>> handbook, add it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Handbook
>> 
>> +1
>> Nemo
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