Cormac Lawler wrote:
Would you like helping with the proceedings - that is formating submissions uniformly, proofreading, helping and reminding authors etc.? Of course everybody can help a bit (it's a wiki) but I'm still looking for someone who would also like to feel responsible for the proceedings as a whole.
I'll certainly pitch in. I'd like to get as much of my disseration written by Wikimania itself - so I'm busy - but would like to see what others are doing and to give a hand.
I know. Wikimania keeps me away of my Thesis at the moment. But it's also related to research.
On those points though, is there a pre-set format that you would like to keep to? Is feedback to authors something that is going to be done?
To create a pre-set format is something that needs to be done. Feedback can be given for instance at the discussion pages - what is needed more is editing submissions and reminding authors to make the bunch of wiki pages look more like Proceedings in the end.
And will there be a printed version of the papers/proceedings?
If someone deals with it - yes. We try to get all papers under GFDL/CC-BY-SA so everyone is free to create a printed version. If you ask me if it's realistic - no. But I'm going to get something like DOI/ISBN etc. and archive it to make the papers more citable and better to find in databases.
Also, on Wikimania in general, I'm looking for somewhere on :meta or :wikimania where you can just brainstorm ideas for mini projects, or just even list them to be discussed there and then. Is this the place? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Feedback
Looks good, but you could also create http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Activities
In any way try to link it from many places and point people to it.
Greetings, Jakob