Washington is about as hot as Haifa but *more* humid.
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On Aug 8, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM, KIZU Naoko
<aphaia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1
+1 indeed. Wikimania 2011 was an awesome conference. Everything the
organizers could control came close to perfection; they did a great
job. The only thing you guys couldn't do was avoid the Wikimania Heat
Curse, but that's hardly your fault :)
In particular, the high-profile Israeli speakers you attracted were
great. I forget their names, but the talks from Prof. Benkler (sp? I
mean the Harvard prof) and the Knesset committee chair were very good.
(I hear Washington is gonna be about as hot as Haifa, albeit with less
humidity. Wikimania 2013 in Reykjavik? Maybe we can make peace with
the volcano that way too. :D)
You the team rocks. Not only the conference in
general I mean here -
you guys could have ignored some petty minor requests and inquires
just saying "it's out of our business" "we're busy".
Sometimes I even
felt guilty to see your team's quick responses to the list and
elsewhere.
I experienced the same thing: after asserting on identi.ca and Twitter
that WM11 would have streaming, I got 3 or 4 replies from different
organizers correcting me and apologizing for the lack of streaming,
all in a few hours. Special thanks in this category to Danny B, who
gave me the impression he had made it his personal mission to look
after me, getting me water when I was presenting and polaroid pictures
at the party, even though I'm sure he was plenty busy with other
things.
I wish the WM11 team lots of recovery sleep after what I'm sure has
been an exhausting week, and the WM12 team the best of luck trying to
live up to this excellent example.
Roan
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