I'd like to join the choir, thank you all the organizers and also to
Lodewijk, let us know the people who offered help in the last weeks.
Specially I'd like to appreciate the streaming team, on behalf of
Wikimedians in Kyoto, Japan. As I told Mathias, the meeting we at
Wikimedia User Group in Kansai presented in Tokyo last Friday, it got
a nice stable clear streaming, without any problem, user:Aokomoriuta
said to me. Again, thank you for your all work which made it.
hugs and kisses,
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote:
Dear organizers (hopefully someone can forward it to
those not on this list)
thank you so much for putting the time and dedication into this years
wikimania. Organizing a conference of this size with attendees who have such
high demands and expectations is as always hard, and I think it deserves an
applause no matter whether some things did not go as planned.
It was a very difficult organizing this year, the bumps in the road were
numerous and I would like to explicitely thank all those volunteers who were
not a part of the bidding team but stepped in when their help was most
needed. Several people who live outside Poland suddenly lived for a few
weeks in an appartment in Gdansk together - leaving their lives for what
they were - and had to make horrible long hours to make the conference to
what it has become. I have deep appreciation for those people and I think it
is quite unique and wonderful to have such a volunteer base to fall back
onto.
But also "the people we did not see" did a tremendous amount of work in the
past weeks. I remember that I slipped a few days before the conference that
it would be nice to have X in the attendee packages, and the next day they
were suddenly arranged!
I dont dare to call out the specific people, being afraid of missing several
- I have only seen so much of it. I do hope to have the opportunity of
seeing many of you irl again soon!
many hugs,
Lodewijk
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