On 10/10/2007, cohesion <cohesion(a)sleepyhead.org> wrote:
On 10/9/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Certainly the track record of selections is far
more appealing to *me*
as a jetsetter than as a Wikipedian... and as long as we're still
looking at airfare well over $1000/person (which wouldn't be the case
for me traveling to canada, mexico, or much of western europe), my
money would be better spent contributing to other non-profits and
traveling to regional Wikipedian events. (And certainly, I don't find
Egypt appealing, with its poor track record of intolerance and
mistreatment of female travelers who are foolish enough to violate
Islamic norms)
Agreed. Is there anything stopping people from organizing an event
somewhere that isn't so expensive?
"Expensive for me" you mean? Someone always loses out.
It would be cool to have an actually useful
conference. Since so many
people that work on Wikipedia, Commons etc are English speaking when
the conference is in places like Taipei and Alexandria it seems like
it's more for fun than anything worthwhile for me, being primarily
interested in enwiki.
"Actually useful"? I don't see how the location changes the usefulnes
of the conference...
As someone else suggested, hosting local Wikimanias is a good option.
Why not get behind Atlanta (I assume you live in the US as you agree
with Greg's comments) and organise a US Wikimania maybe a couple of
weeks before or after the official one.
regards,
Brianna
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