Hi,
Am 28.08.2014 22:31, schrieb Nkansah Rexford:
Are there any plans to get an official app for use for
subsequent
conferences of Wikimania? Or sponsors who happen to be app developers
will do us the honor?
[...]
The app link above says "official Wikimania
app", but not very official
to me as was built by one of the sponsors of the event.
I talked to two of the developers. Their business is (partially) based
in London and they are a small start-up with a lot of passion, which
made them a great partner and sponsor for this year's Wikimania.
They have in mind making the app open source but yet they still work on
making a good living of the app and the services around it. They did
indicate to me that they would be very interested in getting feedback,
to further develop (improve) the app and provide it for free - unless it
becomes open source one day - for future Wikimedia conferences.
I personally would love it if this could become reality. I do have the
contact of one of the guys (Jon Sivak) and am interested to keep
contact. Maybe this is part of what the Wikimania Committee can do in
order to help local teams. I believe that things like these (along with
standardised Visa invitation processes, centrally hosted registration
and scholarship management tools...) should be provided centrally to
each year's team.
/Manuel
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