On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch> wrote:

Hi,

On 03/01/2012 05:24 PM, Martin Walker wrote:
> I'd love to participate in such an event at Wikimania, if something is
> organized for there (and the dates work OK).

then I'd like to point you to the submission to Wikimania I have made:

http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Offline_Workshop

I would love to see you there as part of the workshop.

Thanks for the suggestion, Manuel. I wonder if this hour long session would be useful to have not as a workshop but perhaps as an overview/awareness presentation for the broader Wikimedia community, who are perhaps less knowledgable on the offline topic. What do you all think? Last year I felt a little sad we didn't do a more "promotional" presentation to reach out to people who were not necessarily already involved in the project.

I wonder for the purposes of this strategic planning / working meeting, if we need a few days of prioritizing, planning, and hacking/working from some of the people most deeply involved in different projects. This seems like something that could be potentially be done during the hackathon days of the conference: July 10-11.

Otherwise, we could alternatively plan a weekend in June, if this is more appealing to folks, or meets more availability.

I started a page on the Offline Projects page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Volunteer_Page/2012_offline_workshop

Please:

Put your username if you are (in general) interested in attending this; this will help us gauge the number of people who want to be involved
Indicate your availability for the Wikimania dates
Suggest alternate dates
Suggest agenda items

Thanks for your interest. I think this could be _awesome_. Again: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Volunteer_Page/2012_offline_workshop

Jessie

Jessie Wild
Global Development, Manager
Wikimedia Foundation