It isn't TED, but from the get go I've had outreach as a primary goal with
this event, and I've been planning and programming with that in mind. This
doesn't have to set a precedent for future Wikimanias. Technical concerns
aside, what negative outcomes are you imagining?

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On 15 April 2014 10:28, James Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:

> To be honest I'm not completely sure I'm comfortable with that level of
> advertising (in fact it makes me very very uncomfortable) even if it works
> technically. This isn't TED....and I would hate to see it turn into that
> especially given the wide variety in organizers each year.
>
> James
>
> James Alexander
> Legal and Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation
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>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Philippe Beaudette <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Edward Saperia 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> The livestreams will be promoted via a centralnotice
>>
>>
>> My understanding is that this is far from a decided thing.  There are
>> still some massive concerns about your servers rolling over and dying with
>> the traffic we send from this - particularly for streaming video which is
>> already a bandwidth hog.  I'd want to see some testing first.
>>
>> pb
>>
>>
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>> Foundation, Inc.
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