One additional nice benefit from having the affiliates conference be a pre-Wikimania conference is that those who don't want to or are excluded from the affiliate portions of the event can attend other portions like the education pre-conference or the pre-conference hackathon.
Can we please move this discussion to Meta? Thanks, Pine On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Ed Saperia <edsape...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would, however, significantly increase the work for the Wikimania > organisers. They didn't sign up to programme and organise an affiliate org > conference, so they shouldn't have to if they don't want to. > > Guestlists cause all sorts of politics, but are a necessary evil when > dealing with limited resources. Choices must be made, and it's up to the > hosts to decide who gets to come. A mission statement for the conference > might help alleviate some of the bad feeling, but there will inevitably be > some as long as there are fewer places than people. > > Ed Saperia > Conference Coordinator Wikimania London > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 12 Sep 2014, at 01:44, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I like the idea of having this event be a pre-conference for Wikimania. > > That may reduce total travel costs and travel time for the people who > > usually attend both events. This may also simplify planning for people > and > > thorgs. > > > > Pine > >> On Sep 11, 2014 5:25 PM, "Pete Forsyth" <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Richard Symonds < > >> richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > >> > >>> What I'm saying is, let's plan a conference before we argue over the > >> name. > >> > >> > >> But, most of the people on this list wouldn't have anything to do with > this > >> conference -- surely there's a better resource for conference-planning. > >> > >> The thing most of us have a stake in is the name of the conference, and > -- > >> perhaps -- nothing more. > >> > >> Pete > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
