On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 16:44, Andy Mabbett wrote:
I agree that Sunday was unproductive (although I got a lot out of the session I led, in which I invited others to suggest solutions to issues I'd been experiencing). But I'm sure that was a result of the unconference being tagged on "after" Wikimania, rather than being a part of it, and being ill-explained and under-promoted before the day (conversely, the facilitation on the day was good).
Indeed, every other unconference I've ever been to has been /highly/ productive, and I'd be in favour of replacing the formal sessions with /just/ an unconference.
That may just be because the Wikimedia crowd aren't familiar with how unconferences work. I'm tempted to suggest we ought to try having a one-day WikiCamp in London organised with the advice of people who have run a few unconferences before, so we can test the model independently. ;-)