Thinking out loud: what about doing it post-conference instead of pre-conference? Then you could schedule it a bit more unconference, and cover things that were not covered at Wikimania itself, and focus on building on what you learned. You could focus on collaboration rather than having more presentations?

Lodewijk

2016-07-06 20:17 GMT+02:00 Marc-Andre <marc@uberbox.org>:

Hey Pine,

On 2016-07-06 01:44 AM, Pine W wrote:

Those of us in the US have expressed a hope that WikiConference North America 2017 can be united with Wikimania 2017 in Montreal.

Like many others on the list, I'm not entirely clear on what you'd like to achieve?

Certainly, any topics that would have been welcome and appropriate at a the WikiConference would be welcome at Wikimania, with no need of distinct tracks?

Certainly, some meetings will have discussion topic that would be generally less interesting to an international audience; but then remain suitable for meetups. (Speaking of which, there will be a lot of available space and time for both organized and impromptu meetings in Montreal that are self-organized by the participants; both BoF sessions that are organized in advance with scheduled time and places as well as space set aside for unconferency impromptu meetings).

That said, if you feel the need to avoid division of audience, we do have two full days of preconference during which it may be possible to make additional meeting space avaliable for a more "distinct" WikiConference?

-- Coren / Marc

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