A good conversation to take part in! S ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pharos <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:36 PM Subject: [Wikimania-l] The Varieties of Wikimania Experience To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < [email protected]>
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Lodewijk <[email protected]>wrote: > Maybe the question should first be: what kind of Wikimania do we want. > Personally, I would be totally happy with down scaling the conference a > bit. Less visitors (500-600), less events and less professional. Let it be > more volunteer focused, and yes, perhaps also a bit more chaotic. That also > means we can change the nature of bids: more back to basic and more focus > on location, venue and accomodation. If we can bring the budget down, we > also need to focus less on sponsorships etc, which should make the bidding > easier and more open to more groups of dedicated volunteers. > > I know other people have a different opinion about it, and would rather > make the conference more professional, less risky, more fancy etc. I prefer > it to be a lower key community event. > > Lodewijk > On a general note, I agree with Lodewijk and some of the other sentiment that it may be wise to take Wikimania back in the direction of a somewhat more informal, community-centric social experience. However, I very much disagree that this has to mean a *smaller* Wikimania, I would rather see Wikimania growing, year by year, as a global social hub for volunteers and fans in the wide world of the emerging free knowledge movement. And look forward to our Wiki-Woodstock bid for NY, coming 2019 or so! ;) Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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