Hello everyone,
I have spent some time in the last 3-4 days looking around, trying to
dig information about what was happening about Wikimania.
First, I would like to say that I am very excited Wikimania will be in
Taipei. Not only because it will be a great opportunity to see Taiwan.
But also because I see Wikimania as a extraordinary opportunity for the
editors to get to know others better. This is already happening, when I
see editors from Taiwan, from Germany, from the USA, from France,
working together to make that event happen.
I have rather little helped preparing Wikimania in the previous years.
But I was a participant. And I had a great time. Wikimania is probably
the most important event of the year for the community. It is the moment
when people can meet and can talk together. This is a fabulous experience.
Right now, I am sure that for some of you, it appears tiring and
difficult. I am sure that you sometimes lack courage, because it is a
lot of work, few people see you doing it, sometimes trying to find a
sponsor does not succeed. But if you look at it, the conference is
getting a little bit more real everyday.
So, keep faith (you are welcome to tell me the same when I am lacking
courage myself).
The Foundation will help as much as possible on its part.
Erik is currently involved in the program. I read the notes of the last
meeting and it looks as if things are moving nicely.
I will have a look on the budget with Theodoranian and all those
involved in it in a few days.
It seems Frances, Tzu-chiang and Alice are working hard on the
sponsorships. Danny from the Foundation will also bring some help to get
some more sponsors. Pyb is also willing to give a hand.
What I hope is that we can have more money this year, so as to help more
people to join.
Registration seems to be the hot topic of the moment. I suggest that
once registration system is open, we could not only mention it on lists,
but also on the Foundation website, and possibly inform the sign post
and Walter from wikizine to reach a larger audience. I am willing to
help you here if necessary. We need visitors from everywhere :-)
According to the website, it seems that venue is having hard time. Would
it help to ask for more volunteers ?
I intend to give you more information probably within 2 weeks for when
the board meeting will take place (probably before Wikimania). But this
is a detail.
I'll try to stick around so as to see how I can help. But essentially,
thank you for the great work.
Anthere
Hi,
> From christophe.henner(a)wikimedia.fr:
>
> On 15/02/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have looked at the form, and I think that some people
> would find it
> > objectionable to include Passport numbers at this stage of
> proceedings.
> > Others, who do not travel frequently, may not yet have a passport.
> >
> > Is the third option, "Other", really meaningful when responding to
> > sex? :-)
> >
> > Ec
>
> hehe, I laught on the "other" at sex. I don't know if it had
> been made on a comic purpose, but at least I think it's funny ^_^
We list the "other" option because we think maybe some people might want to
use it. For example, [[Transgender]].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender
> For the passport purpose, I do agree. I do have one but for
> the moment I'm not sure mine will be ok, I do think I'll have
> to make a new one, and in france it takes around 3weeks, some
> time more.
>
> Perhaps it should be good to accept National ID for the
> registration, and the foreigners will have to send the
> passport number to the Team.
> Passport will be needed to come to Taiwan, so if they give
> the ID number and pay, it should be enough for the
> registration. Unless it's absolutly needed for insurance of
> stuff like this.
>
> If the passport is absolutly needed, just let us know so we
> can warn the community.
>
> --
> schiste
The passport number and the National ID will be used for insurance purpose,
and we will not leak your personal information to any other third parties.
Regards,
--
Hsiang-Tai Chien (H.T.)
International Contact
Wikimania Taipei Team
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Hello, I'm a knew member on this list. I can may be help you to contact
telecommunication compagnies. The wikimedian who is in charge of sponsorship
can contact me to see what I can do.
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Pierre Beaudouin
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Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aphaia
>
> On 2/16/07, Hsiang-Tai Chien <htchien1225(a)yahoo.com.tw> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > The passport number and the National ID will be used for insurance
> > purpose, and we will not leak your personal information to
> any other third parties.
>
> I expect no one suppose the possiblity you mentioned, but
> your statement made me have another question; our insurance
> company is okay only our IDs, I mean IDs without the expired dates?
I will check with our insurance people and let you know the answer.
Regards,
H.T.
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Dear Anthere:
I'm DAUCTER, and just take resposible for the registration and the
accomadaiton for Wikimina 2007.
If the board wanted to have a meeting before or after Wikiminia, please just
let us know the further dertails. And we would like to arrange for the board
meeting.
Let me remind you, because the summer vocation, Chien Tan Overseas Youth
(CTOY) will become popular during this time. It may need to registrate for
the accommodations earlier. And I'll ask CTOY when is deadline to confirm
the accommodation.
So, if the board make the decision as earlier as you can, it's much easy to
arrange everything. Even if CTOY didn't have the rooms or conference room,
we can also arange the other places for the board.
I will look forward to the accommodation for you, but please do not hesitate
to contact me or the tean, should you require any further information.
DAUCTER
Hi all,
As I was not able to figure out who is responsible for what at Wikimania
2007 planning and my last request did not achieve to get to the last
Wikimania Taipai Team meeting I would like to repeat my question:
1. What will accomodation cost at Wikimania 2007 location (CTOYAC)?
2. How many days you can stay? Can you come earlier and stay longer if
you want?
Please add the answer at
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue
And update the misleading list
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Team_and_Volunteers
Greetings,
Jakob
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We'd like to have the techs a little more involved in Hacking Days
planning than last year; Ivan did a fantastic job at arranging a
tech-themed mini-conference, but it wasn't really what we expected and I
think it ended up less productive and more stressful and hectic than it
should have been because of that.
Who should we be talking to on the program committee or whatever to make
sure everybody's on the same page? I want everybody to both have a blast
and get some stuff done at the same time. :)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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Just a quick note -- there was a little spate of vandalism on the
wikimania2006 site (http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org) last week. I
think it's all cleaned up now, but this is just a reminder that this
is still an open wiki, and if folks could remember to help check it
every once in a while that would be appreciated!
cheers,
phoebe