I imagine another major aspect was getting hundreds of scholarship recipients and WMF staff from the hotel all the way across town to the library at 8.30am every morning. :(
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 at 23:23 Ellie Young eyoung@wikimedia.org wrote:
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@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://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City/Biblioteca_V...
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,
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