Hi Simon,
Of course, your input is always welcome but per Aphaia and others, you
shouldnt have gone ahead on your own and contacted people.
However I think you feel we have no progress on this front so I will fill
you (and everyone) in:
There is a program committee in action that has resulted from a couple of
calls for participation here on the list from people who responded, attended
meetings at the time and created accounts on the Pentabarf organizing
software, this committe is not private and you are welcome to join anytime
if you are interested (I can add you to the mail list). Uptill now we held
a rotating weekly meeting every weekend that resulted first in the CfP and
second in a list of over 25 local (middle-east) and global speakers to be
invited, that list is kept on the team wiki because most of it is
unconfirmed yet, however most of that list has been assigned a point of
contact, which is a person who will initiate contact with that specific
organization/person. We are currently debating things like the formal
invitation process, invitation budget and costs, scope of interest in
subjects, etc. So you see it is not very good for someone to bypass that and
send a localized invite. We need to maintain a consistent image for
Wikimania and Wikimedia.
That said, as I mentioned before you are welcome to join and jump in on the
subjects debated and lend a hand if you want...
On Feb 5, 2008 8:15 PM, Aphaia <aphaia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Simon
On Feb 6, 2008 10:50 AM, simonpedia <simon(a)cols.com.au> wrote:
Hi Guys,
Sorry to wake yu up.
Cary wrote, ".I am copying Mr. Berners-Lee to ask him to kindly please
disregard your
Email". Sorry, if I'd known you didn't want him to talk, I wouldn't
have
asked him.
I am afraid you missed the point.
You are not in charge to send an invitation to anyone. You are not the
person who is expected to act on the Wikimania Organizing Committee
without consulting its member.
It doesn't matter who we are going to invite. You are not just the
person to contact them. At least then and now. And I am quite sure you
won't be either.
Thanks.
Pheobe wrote, "There's a page to
brainstorm ideas here:
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas"
Sorry. The only ideas for sessions I see here are mine, from December.
Samuel wrote, "ps - Please note : he may show up incognito even when he
declines to speak".
Sorry, He might, Now he knows there's something going on.
You'll really have to forgive me. If yu are having conversations, which
I
(or anyone else can't see) I won't know
about them of course. So you'll
understand that activity needs to be seen to be understood. I'm just
used to
a culture where conversations happen above the
radar. If you understand
that
I'm used to producing (primarily the AV stuff
for) conferences for 8,000
min
this is so very late in the day. And I'd
really like to see the WMF's
communities understand what, globally, is going on.
Sorry, simon.
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