On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Andy Cruz y Corro <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > So in general there's not enough communication between Wikimania organizers > for things like this. Why don't we organize some sort of Brain Trust with > former organizers to give opinions and advice **in a timely manner** to > whoever is the current organizing team? It can be a really easy setup (maybe > nothing more than a small mailing list and/or skype chat) where the current > team can ask "Hey, X: you dealt with this before. How did you do it?" Any > former organizer who is interested can just throw their name in the hat with > his/her area of expertise and that's it. Even more, since the proposed Trust > is just an advisory team (meaning that the current organizers don't > necessarily have to act upon the advise in the exact described way) this > communication can even become private and informal. > > I think something like this is needed to improve future Wikimanias without > compromising on those small things that make it a non-generic event. If we > can manage a solution like this, sign me up. >
Sounds like a good idea, as long as the answers that ought to be recorded for posterity are added at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Handbook and subpages, which should be the primary set of opinions and advice and checklists. _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
