On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM, KIZU Naoko aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
+1
+1 indeed. Wikimania 2011 was an awesome conference. Everything the organizers could control came close to perfection; they did a great job. The only thing you guys couldn't do was avoid the Wikimania Heat Curse, but that's hardly your fault :)
In particular, the high-profile Israeli speakers you attracted were great. I forget their names, but the talks from Prof. Benkler (sp? I mean the Harvard prof) and the Knesset committee chair were very good.
(I hear Washington is gonna be about as hot as Haifa, albeit with less humidity. Wikimania 2013 in Reykjavik? Maybe we can make peace with the volcano that way too. :D)
You the team rocks. Not only the conference in general I mean here - you guys could have ignored some petty minor requests and inquires just saying "it's out of our business" "we're busy". Sometimes I even felt guilty to see your team's quick responses to the list and elsewhere.
I experienced the same thing: after asserting on identi.ca and Twitter that WM11 would have streaming, I got 3 or 4 replies from different organizers correcting me and apologizing for the lack of streaming, all in a few hours. Special thanks in this category to Danny B, who gave me the impression he had made it his personal mission to look after me, getting me water when I was presenting and polaroid pictures at the party, even though I'm sure he was plenty busy with other things.
I wish the WM11 team lots of recovery sleep after what I'm sure has been an exhausting week, and the WM12 team the best of luck trying to live up to this excellent example.
Roan