On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 16:44, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I agree that Sunday was unproductive (although I got a lot out of the > session I led, in which I invited others to suggest solutions to > issues I'd been experiencing). But I'm sure that was a result of the > unconference being tagged on "after" Wikimania, rather than being a > part of it, and being ill-explained and under-promoted before the day > (conversely, the facilitation on the day was good). > > Indeed, every other unconference I've ever been to has been /highly/ > productive, and I'd be in favour of replacing the formal sessions with > /just/ an unconference.
That may just be because the Wikimedia crowd aren't familiar with how unconferences work. I'm tempted to suggest we ought to try having a one-day WikiCamp in London organised with the advice of people who have run a few unconferences before, so we can test the model independently. ;-) -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
