Hi SJ,
The Conference was planned at first around the 20th of august, because that
is still in the hollidays indeed but also a few weeks (to have some rest
after a exhausting wikimania ;-) ) after "Boston". That would be a ideal
time imho. But of course I have to await some community imput. Now I see
Brion's mail of Wikisym, so I'll put it into the discussion. Maybe we don't
care, maybe we do, as I don't know how much Dutch people want to go to
Danmark etc. :) (thank you brion for mentioning it)
Btw I forgot to metion that probably Kennisnet will be able to sponsor a
location, laptops and beamer(s), and maybe even streaming :) Of course this
makes it all a lot more fun :)
greetings, Effeietsanders
2006/2/2, SJ <2.718281828(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi Effeitsanders,
Are you thinking of organizing something during the summer holidays,
in the weeks following Wikimania? Or at a later time during the year?
I hear being Dutch gives one an inherited advantage when it comes to
throwing parties...
--SJ
On 2/2/06, effeietsanders-list <effeietsanders.l(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Wikimanians
"Poor us, Europeans", I thought when it became clear that wikimania (or
how
we'll call it this year) will be held in
Boston. So far away, and só
expensive... A ticket costs soon €500,--, and then we have to sleep,
eat,
drink, and have some fun. a lot more then I spend
usually on my
hollidays :P
So I wanted something else for the poor people
who can't afford it to
buy a
ticket etc. Something in here. And I thought up
some kind of own, a lot
shorter conference, in the Netherlands. Organized by the Vereniging
Wikimedia Nederland (Dutch Chapter) I hope to have a conference of one
(or
maybe two, but probably not) day(s) with some
lectures of Wikimania, but
also, very important, discussiongroups ''about'' the subjects that were
mentioned during Wikimania. Some workshops (how to bot etc) and these
small-scaled discussiongroups should make the conference different from
the
Wikimania in Boston, especially because it will
be for the largest part
in
Dutch :) This way I hope to get a bunch of people
together, to let the
community get to know eachother, to make friends irl, but also not to
kill
Boston in its number of visitors because we
attract a lot of people.
It will become a conference with a very different character if it's up
to
me, however it will have a link with the
Boston-conference. The link
will on
my behalf exist mostly in the subjects and some
speakers, and of course
I
hope to get the Dutch and Flemish enthousiastic
for both events. It will
be
a great impuls for the Dutch community (and as
you probably already all
know, we NEED THAT ;-) ) and for the Vereniging.
As you are all working very hard on getting a program together for
Boston,
and orginizing a great event in Boston, I would
like to hear your
opinion
about this. I can take those advises into the
plans to create something
approaching perfect :P Please give your comments on this and (i need
that
really) keep me somehow please informed about the
growing of the program
(as
long as it is not discussed on this list) because
unfortunately MetaWiki
is
a true MazeWiki. Thank you in advance.
greeting from the Netherlands, Effeietsanders
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