Hi Anthere, sorry for the late reply since I have some daily job need to be done. Also I just have some mail server issue with Yahoo now so my last 2 posts are lost. I wish this one can make it to the mailing list. :(
OK, please see my reply as HT> below.
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From: foundation-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Anthere
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:03 AM
To: foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2007
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I'd like to say thank you to Hsiang-Tai Chien for his civility and that I hope we'll do a fabulous Wikimania 2007 in Taipei.
One of the specific request I will have (which is basically the same that the one of the past two years) is that we try to find funds to help wikipedians to come from all over the world. We need to start looking for such funds as soon as possible. And make this event a bridge between continents.
HT> Thanks, and personally I will join the discussion and the organization for Wikimania 2007 in the mail lists; I will also participate in the Taipei team more actively. Although we have a large amount of local sponsorships, it would always be better if more funds on travel scholarships are available. The Taipei team is also discussing sponsorship details with China Airlines (flag carrier of ROC on Taiwan) for deeply discounted tickets. China Airlines serves many cities in North America and Europe, including Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Seattle, Vancouver, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Rome, Vienna, and others. We will work closely with the Foundation in the coordination of sponsorships.
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I'd like to ask HT if all the chinese wikimania core team could join the wikimania mailing list, even though it may be that some of you discuss issues in chinese only. It is important (imho) that at least some non chinese be involved in the organisation, as it will greatly enrich the process.
HT> Some of Taipei team members have already joined the Wikimania-l and Wikimedia-l mailing lists. We did not participate much in the previous discussions on Wikimania Taipei because there were too many emotional comments and invalid questions, and the team was already very busy with the preparation of the conference. We will ask more members to join the Wikimania-l for serious discussions on the conference. We welcome any non-Chinese people to join us and we would be very open for opinions and ideas because Wikimania 2007 is not just an event for Taipei, but an event for all Wikimedians over the world. We understand that the bidding result might let some people feel down but we still sincerely welcome them to provide constructive ideas for this event.
HT> We will start organizing the Wikimania 2007 page on meta soon, and use it as a platform for relevant discussions. We have also registered domain name wikimania.tw for use by Wikimania 2007.
Also, I would like that all core organisers provide a little bit more information about them, and that the role of each be defined as much as possible. This will help identify areas where help is missing. And this will help us identify who the Foundation should be in touch with for various issues (for example, the Foundation (Michael) MUST be in contact with the budget person).
Ant
HT> Yes, I will provide a rough member list now:
Team leader: Theodoranian (meta:User:Theodoranian / wp:zh:User:Theodoranian)
Media and public relations: KJ (meta:User:KaurJmeb / wp:zh:User:KaurJmeb) Sponsorship: KJ and Francis Huang (Academia Sinica, the national academy of ROC on Taiwan)
English communications: Hsiang-Tai (meta:User:Htchien / wp:zh:User:Htchien), Dodd (meta:User:Dodd / wp:zh:User:Dodd), and roc (meta:User:R.O.C / wp:zh:User:R.O.C)
Website: Alex S. H. (meta:User:Alexsh / zh:User:Alexsh), LittleBTC (meta:User:Littlebtc / zh:User:笨笨的小B), and GLWu
Program: Theodoranian, Tzu-Chiang Liou (Academia Sinica), and KJ
For financial matters, we are still looking for the ideal person.
At the same time, we would like the Board appoint a contact person for us so we can coordinate lots of matters with the Board.
Thanks and best regards,
H.T.
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On 10/3/06, Anthere <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'd like to ask HT if all the chinese wikimania core team could join the
> wikimania mailing list, even though it may be that some of you discuss
> issues in chinese only. It is important (imho) that at least some non
> chinese be involved in the organisation, as it will greatly enrich the
> process.
Even before the winner city was decided, I was contacted by a member
of Chinese team to help inviting speakers from Japan. I understood
this request they would have liked me as non Chinese to be involved
program organization. I believe some other non Chinese editors had a
similar contact.
As Transcom member, I would like also to know who of Chinese team will
be interested in translation coordinations. Personally I think it
would be better one of Chinese team will care for translation in
general and one additional coordinator collaborate with him or her.
Since there are many good translators in Chinese speaking community,
not only zh-en but also zh-de, zh-ru and so on (I don't know zh-fr
translator(s) yet though), it will make a sense some language versions
are generated directly from Chinese versions in case Chinese is the
original. And then native speaker copyediting will be helpful.
Translation and website setting up began on the mid March in past two
conferences, we have enough time find such a coordinator, but if
Chinese team have a clear plan, it will be nice for us all to know
about that.
--
Kizu Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* vox populi, vox dei *
Hi all,
I've just been alerted to a Wiki that came about as an initiative to
ascertain best practice(s) for submissions to conferences. I've just
briefly scanned, but for anyone with the time or motivation to check
it out, please do so :-)
It's at: http://wiki.acm.org/healthcc/index.php?title=Main_Page
Cheers,
Cormac
Dear all,
after a wonderful month in Canda and USA I'm back in Europe and I
write you to give you some interesting links. As many of you know, I
interviewed Jimbo Wales (in English) and wrote something about
Wikimania 2006 for an Italian newspaper (La Stampa).
Here the results:
http://www.lastampa.it/cmstp/rubriche/girata.asp?ID_blog=30&ID_articolo=806…
Here an interesting interview with Richard Stallman when he came to
Italy to introduce GPL version 3:
http://www.opensourcelab.it/osl_en/
Thank you everyone for the kindness and the enthusiasm I felt at Wikimedia!
Sara Arrigone
Lost and Found: if you lost something at Wikimania and it has yet to
be found, please let us know (off-list).
Facebook: If you made it to Wikimania, please add your photo to the
facebook ... so that people who were overloaded with new faces and
names can figure out how to get in touch with you again.
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees#Facebook
Blogs, essays, other thoughts: aside from those of you who have
already promised reports (you know who you are :-), please link to any
blog posts or essays you have published relating to Wikimania from the
group conference blog, in a post or as an external link:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog#External_links
Other photos: please upload freely-licensed Wikimania photos to the
Wikimedia Commons, tag them "Wikimania 2006", and link to them from
the blog external links section... or find creative ways to use them
in informational articles.
Posters: if you provided a poster, I likely have it. If you don't
want it to be discarded / want something special done with it, let me
know.
Wikimania Awards: There will be some form of Wikimania Awards again
next year, for the best free content and media written, captured,
relicensed, and uploaded to Wikimedia projects between now and next
Wikimania. It's not too early to start planning for it now.
Cheers,
SJ
Dear Wikimaniacs near and far,
Thanks to all for making Wikimania an amazing event this year. It was
more fun than a barrel of edit-warriors from Gdansk... who probably
showed up Saturday night. We had over 450 attendees, a quarter of
them from outside the US; over 50 journalists & media groups on-site;
85 presentations, workshops, and panels; 25 posters and 40 last-minute
lightning presentations; two great parties including robots and
holograms; a scavenger hunt full of info <hmm>; a Web 1.0 elevator
pitch-off judged by time-travelling VCs, Wikimania Awards for great
free-content media and writing judged by Wikipedians and Creative
Commoners, and the 17th annual world Calvinball championship. And 40
amazing volunteers who helped things run smoothly all year.
You can find media archives online. We have raw video for the two
main rooms, but this is not yet online; however audio is available for
most sessions:
http://wikimania2006.wikime=dia.org/wiki/Archives
Video of the Web 1.0 elevator pitch-off will be available soon (Finne?)
We are working on the proceedings; some full presentations are
available already, and the discussions are not over -- all
presentations are open to comment. A document with most of the
abstracts in one package will be available soon online.
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:Index
Finally, your feedback is appreciated, whether you attended in person
or remotely, in English or in other languages :
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Post_conference_comments
Summer regards,
SJ
PS -- if you are inspired to launch a bid for your own favorite city
to host Wikimania next year, rough guidelines are up and cities are
being selected within the next 6 weeks (!!):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2007/Bids
PPS - if you couldn't make it to Wikimania, and haven't filled your
wiki quotient for the summer, there is yet hope. Wikisym is coming up
next week, in Denmark:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006/
Hi folks,
Registration is now open, and I'd like to get the "in crowd" processed
before the onslaught brought on by the press release. If there are
any fundamental problems be encountered in the process, I'd rather you
guys find them, rather than some random dude who read about Wikimania
in a magazine.
So by all means, register, but only if your schedule is firm and
you're prepared to shell out the fee for admission:
http://wm06reg/wikimedia.org/
Austin
The conference is over today, and I would like to appreciate all
conference staff, Harvard staff, attendees, and anyone who involved.
Thank you. It was totally interesting conference.
BTW, I still need your help. I lost my eyeglasses. It has emerald
colored stems with black covers.
See:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/takot/208422648/
If you know something about that, please tell me. As far as I
remember, I wore it during sessions of the 1st day, but I realised I
didn't have it on Friday night. I have stayed the 4th floor of Ames
dorm so I think it is may be there, but could be some other sites.
Sorry to bother you.
Thanks in advance.
--OTA Takashi
Hello again online,
thank you for your all efforts to realize the conference. Perhaps I
might be nice for waiting someone more involved to address gratitude,
but so what? <grin> So, thank you again for your all efforts. We did
it.
There are however something to do still now. The Website still needs
your care. Perhaps we might better to modify some pages, just blanking
them or hide 'em at least from the front page? (like [[registration]])
I am not sure the current situation, so want to know how you think -
specially [[staff]] on ground.
If we edit the site or not, [[Wmania:Main page]] was already updated.
Changes are very slight, but each language page needs to care (you
could turn it into redirect to English page, if you are too busy or
just before going out for holiday ...).
URL is: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Cheers,
--
Kizu Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* vivemus, mea Lesbia, amemus *