Although our planning in '15 had a different structure, for me was very useful have a one-two hour recap with Ed after Wikimania 2014, because at that point he had a more clear image of what functioned and what not, and I understood his planning into several areas.
I'm agree with Nick, all these plans and models should be present into the Handbook.
2016-07-12 17:33 GMT-05:00 Nick Wilson (Quiddity) nwilson@wikimedia.org:
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Andy Cruz y Corro andycyca@gmail.com wrote:
[...] So in general there's not enough communication between Wikimania
organizers
for things like this. Why don't we organize some sort of Brain Trust with former organizers to give opinions and advice **in a timely manner** to whoever is the current organizing team? It can be a really easy setup
(maybe
nothing more than a small mailing list and/or skype chat) where the
current
team can ask "Hey, X: you dealt with this before. How did you do it?" Any former organizer who is interested can just throw their name in the hat
with
his/her area of expertise and that's it. Even more, since the proposed
Trust
is just an advisory team (meaning that the current organizers don't necessarily have to act upon the advise in the exact described way) this communication can even become private and informal.
I think something like this is needed to improve future Wikimanias
without
compromising on those small things that make it a non-generic event. If
we
can manage a solution like this, sign me up.
Sounds like a good idea, as long as the answers that ought to be recorded for posterity are added at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Handbook and subpages, which should be the primary set of opinions and advice and checklists.
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