On 30.04.2013 13:23, Katie Chan wrote:
On 30/04/2013 11:49, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
My personal experience after being an active program committee member
on the 2010 Wikimania Organizing Committee was that my activity there
(and I believe in the end of the day we did a good job - for example,
we managed to accept all submissions with a very few exceptions) was
only appreciated by my fellow organizers. I have not heard any good
words from anybody else, a lot of bad words were coming from all kind
of corners, and nobody in 2011, 2012, 2013, or, for that matter, in
2014 ever contacted me asking whether I would have any interest to do
this job again. In 2011, someone duly revoked my Wikimania wiki
administrator flag saying smth like "not needed anymore", and nobody
cared to thank me or even to inform me of that. I obviously decided
afterwards that there are other, less painful ways I can be do my
community service, and lost all interest in Wikimania organization.
I would just like to point out that there's no Program Committee for
2014 as the jury decision on host haven't even been made yet, and for
2013 there were an open invitation for people to volunteer to serve on
the Programmes Commitee and Scholarship Committee -
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2012-October/004375.html>.
Yes, as a movement in general we need to get better at showing
apperication for others hard work, but let's not generalise.
Regards,
KTC
As I said, this is my personal experience, and not a generalization. I
unsubscribed from wikimania-l I believe in 2010, and now I will not do
it again even if personally approached. I am fine with doing community
service, but I am not really fine with being insulted for doing
community service because people do not care to figure out who is doing
what and insult the first person who approaches them.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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