I imagine another major aspect was getting hundreds of scholarship recipients and WMF staff from the hotel all the way across town to the library at 8.30am every morning. :(
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 at 23:23 Ellie Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Back in May when we announced to this mailing list that registration was > open we included the following: > > * WMF and WM-MX are grateful to Conaculta and the Biblioteca Vasconcelos for > their kind offer to host the conference at the magnificent Biblioteca. > However, due to logistical issues, we had to change the venue to the Hilton > Hotel La Reforma. We will continue to work with both Conaculta and the > Biblioteca Vasconcelos to leverage the experience and capacity of all > institutions to generate and disseminate content that guarantees free and open > knowledge to the whole of society. > > The biggest logistical issue at the Biblioteca that wasn’t resolved at > that time was > being able to guarantee that our connectivity requirements could be met. > > Ellie Young > WMF Conference Coordinator > > > On Aug 2, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > In the 2014 Wikimania bidding process the library was advertised as the > conference venue. > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos> > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos > > > > At some point the venue changed to the Hilton Hotel. > > I had been excited that there would be a conference in a library. We had a > nice conference just the same. > > Where can I find whatever published explanation and discussion there has > been about the venue change? > > Also- thanks to all volunteer organizers for presenting a great Mexico > conference. Everyone who contributed should be very proud and I hope that > no one criticizes anything that any of the volunteers did. The conference > was great thanks to the volunteer organizers. > > Thanks, > > -- > Lane Rasberry > user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia > 206.801.0814 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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