Hi,
*I happy to announce that all the videos from Wikimania 2011 in Haifa are
now available on our channel in YouTube!: http://www.youtube.com/WikimediaIL
.*
Next week I will send a HDD with all the footage and the edited videos to
the WMF so they will have a copy for archive and so they can upload it to
commons also.
*Don't forget also to check our Flickr stream!:
http://www.flickr.com/WikimediaIL*
On the schedule you will find links to the videos:
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule
Also, on each submissions page there is a links to the video, slides and
Etherpad (if available). *For the presenter who didn't upload their slides
yet, please do so and update your submissions page.*
*** Bonus! - a video clip that we made after Wikimania to summarize the
(amazing!) beach party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-MzHGA6fc ***
It was harder than we thought - to record 3 days, in 5 simulation
High-Definition cameras, and than edit, upload and tag them - really not an
easy thing. What we thought will take us few weeks, took about 2 months -
but I'm happy that we finish with that finally :)
I think now we've made this step, we finished our commitment to the
community and to the conference participants. I Hope everyone will enjoy
and will found our (hard) work useful. I personally going to find time to
watch some of lectures... (a tip for Wikimania organizers - don't plan to
attend session during the conference, you will fail :).
And some statistics:
We have about 2TB of footages, 135GB of edit videos, all of them are in HD.
During the confrtence we produce 3 summaries video clips (and one more
after that)
Until now the videos on our YouTube channel had been watched more than
16,000 times and our Flickr stream, who have 1,425 photos been seen more
than 83,000 times!
Thanks everyone for the great opportunity to have this conference in Haifa,
and good luck to the great guys in D.C next year!
Itzik
Wikimania 2011 local team
(probably the last time i'm going to use this title...)
Dear all,
It's getting towards the end of November, which means it is time to
run the Wikimania bidding process for 2013[0].
Given the traditional absence of a formal system, I'm putting myself
forward as Jury[1] co-ordinator - a non-voting person who helps the
Jury form and Bids get started up, sets the timeline[2], and hopefully
makes sure everything happens smoothly.
In this role, I would like to make two requests:
Firstly, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia community would love to see as
many good bids as possible. There are already a few bids[3] on Meta,
but if you or your local community are thinking about putting one in,
I'd urge you to get started now - there's not much time left before
new bids will not be accepted. Making a good bid for Wikimania can be
a lot of work, but we all benefit from there being a strong field of
bids.
Secondly, I would like to invite volunteers to serve on the Wikimania
2013 jury. There is a list of general requirements on Meta[4], but to
summarise:
* The Jury will have some from the Wikimedia Foundation's Board and
staff alongside the community volunteers;
* You can't be on the Jury if you're closely involved in a Bid (it's a
conflict of interest);
* You need to have some free time during the selection period (January-March);
* We want to represent the community across the different projects and
activities; and
* We of course want a mix of people from a diverse range of
backgrounds, sexes, cultures and regions of the world.
If you wish to be involved in the Jury, please e-mail me (off-list) at
jdforrester(a)gmail.com - I hope we can announce the Jury in the first
week of December, so please contact me as soon as you can.
Please also consider passing this message on (and translating it!) for
your wiki's community forum for those that don't read these mailing
lists.
Thank you, and good luck to all Bids.
[0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Jury
[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Bids/Timeline
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Bids
[4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_jury
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
For visa at least I need 6 month, so it would very great if we can have
some sort of help for users who live in such countries, My options are
Kabol, Dubai , Baku, Istanbul and ankara, except turkey they all need visa
:)
Mardetanha
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> You mean try and slip across the border unnoticed? The consequences if you
> were caught would be very serious. I don't think the wikimedia movement can
> condone illegal immigration in order to attend wikimania.
> On Nov 1, 2011 10:58 PM, "Justin Quintal" <cestmoijustin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
You mean try and slip across the border unnoticed? The consequences if you
were caught would be very serious. I don't think the wikimedia movement can
condone illegal immigration in order to attend wikimania.
On Nov 1, 2011 10:58 PM, "Justin Quintal" <cestmoijustin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As Ray said -
The rotation principle is not sacred.
It is safe to assume that the 2013 Wikimania will will not be in Eastern United States - but all other continents and even western US may apply for a bid - thus enabling the jury to select the best bid.
The rotation principle basically has four purposes:
1. enabling people who can not afford expensive flights (or has visa issues) to attend
2. develop the local wiki community
3. increase the wiki activities in the area it is held.
The fact that Wikimania may one year take place in the UK, does not prohibit it from taking place in France the next year (as two of the three purposes is still served).
Deror
>On 11/23/11 3:29 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>
>> It's too late for this year, since a lot of bids have already started,
>> but in future I would suggest formalising the currently unofficial
>> rotation policy.
>
>> If everyone knew in advance what continent it was going to be in, you
>> won't have bids that are disadvantaged from the outset because they're
>> on the wrong continent.
>>
>>
>While the rotation principle is a positive factor, i think it would be a
>mistake to formalize it. That could leave us stuck with accepting a bid
>that is considerably inferior from one from elsewhere.
>Ray
On 23 November 2011 19:31, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janbart(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 23 nov. 2011, at 20:17, James Forrester wrote:
>> On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janbart(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> In the past years I have seen a lot of people spend a lot of time on different bids which never
>>> made it (even though they were pretty good). Could this be the year that we change this
>>> procedure and try to do things differently? I would love to explore how we can avoid a lot of
>>> people wasting their energy...
>>>
>>> How about taking a little time to look at these and other imperfects of the current system
>>> before jumping right in, and trying to see if we can improve it?
>>
>> Happy to pause things, but there's limited time (even if we just
>> awarded it today, 19 months isn't a huge amount of time to organise an
>> event which is quite a significant amount of work). Previously there
>> have been calls for the Board to establish a "Committee" of some sort
>> to oversee Wikimanias and try to come to some agreement about how to
>> improve the system - but I worry that if we start discussions about
>> how we're going to decide to decide we'll never get anywhere. :-)
>
> true,
>
> And if I am the only one having these concerns then no worries, but taking a
> couple of days to share concerns might be a good idea :)
Sure. I'm totally not going to try to rail-road this discussion (or
maybe it should be on-wiki?) by announcing a Jury when we're not sure
how we'll proceed. :-)
J.
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
Far is a very relative term, I have to Go to Tehran (350 KM away from my
city) 2 hour flight to dubai, each times costs almost 500$
Mardetanha
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> heh, so true, it's just informations...
>
> Say, is UAE pretty far from your place?
>
> 2011/11/2 Mardetanha <mardetanha.wiki(a)gmail.com>
>
> > I am afriad that virtual embassy also issues virtual visas. it still just
> > a word nothing solid yet
> > Mardetanha
> >
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> >> Sorry Roan, I wanted to say the same thing you did but i failed.
> >>
> >> 2nd attempt: Citizens from any other country, with a canadian visa,
> still
> >> need a USA visa to get into USA.
> >>
> >> Or more detailed in Roan's mail ;)
> >> _____
> >> *B?ria Lima*
> >> <http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484
> >>
> >> *Imagine um mundo onde ? dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> >> livre acesso ao somat?rio de todo o conhecimento humano. ? isso o que
> >> estamos a fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.*
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2 November 2011 10:35, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:04 AM, B?ria Lima <berialima(a)gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > > Justin, canadians also need visa to be in USA, so ask for a
> canandian
> >> > visa
> >> > > doesn't help.
> >> > Canadians don't need a visa for most short visits. But by "Canadians"
> >> > I mean people with a Canadian passport. If you have a Brazilian
> >> > passport, it doesn't matter how you enter the US (by air, land or sea,
> >> > directly from Brazil or via Canada), you will need a US visa. A
> >> > Canadian visa won't help you get into the US at all: the US and Canada
> >> > are separate countries with border controls between them (the border
> >> > isn't open like the one between the UK and Ireland, or the borders
> >> > between Schengen countries in Europe).
> >> >
> >> > That said, I hear it's possible to get a visa from a US consulate in
> >> > Canada, which I presume will have shorter waiting times than some
> >> > consulates elsewhere. But this is probably not allowed in most
> >> > circumstances if you're not a Canadian citizen. In the OP's case where
> >> > his country of citizenship doesn't have a consulate or embassy and
> >> > he's gonna have to apply in a third country anyway, it might just be
> >> > allowed, I guess. But Canada is a lot farther from Iran than Turkey or
> >> > the UAE and doesn't have visa-free travel for Iranians either, so
> >> > you'd have to get a visa in order to get a visa :P . I wouldn't know
> >> > what sort of choice you have in choosing the country where you apply
> >> > for a visa and whether you're allowed to apply in a country farther
> >> > away from Iran where waiting times are shorter. You should probably
> >> > talk to an immigration lawyer about that sort of thing.
> >> >
> >> > Roan
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