Just to add - transportation was not a consideration to moving the conference to the
Hilton, however this solved the serious transportation issues, and allowed starting the
conference an hour earlier every day, and ending later, thus allowing time in the
scheduled and allowing acceptance of about 30 more talks.Deror (Programme team)
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1. Re: remind me - where was the discussion and explanation on
changing the venue?... (Ellie Young)
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changing the venue?... (Joseph Fox)
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Back in May when we announced to this mailing list that registration was open we included
the following:
* WMF and WM-MX are grateful to Conaculta and the Biblioteca Vasconcelos for
their kind offer to host the conference at the magnificent Biblioteca.
However, due to logistical issues, we had to change the venue to the Hilton
Hotel La Reforma. We will continue to work with both Conaculta and the
Biblioteca Vasconcelos to leverage the experience and capacity of all
institutions to generate and disseminate content that guarantees free and open
knowledge to the whole of society.
The biggest logistical issue at the Biblioteca that wasn’t resolved at that time was
being able to guarantee that our connectivity requirements could be met.
Ellie Young
WMF Conference Coordinator
On Aug 2, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Lane Rasberry
<lane(a)bluerasberry.com> wrote:
Hello,
In the 2014 Wikimania bidding process the library was advertised as the conference
venue.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos>>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos>>
At some point the venue changed to the Hilton Hotel.
I had been excited that there would be a conference in a library. We had a nice
conference just the same.
Where can I find whatever published explanation and discussion there has been about the
venue change?
Also- thanks to all volunteer organizers for presenting a great Mexico conference.
Everyone who contributed should be very proud and I hope that no one criticizes anything
that any of the volunteers did. The conference was great thanks to the volunteer
organizers.
Thanks,
--
Lane Rasberry
user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
206.801.0814
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