On 2016-01-17 11:21 PM, Romaine Wiki wrote:
At the same time I sense something important is missing. I miss in the large plenary sessions the attention for specific users and their projects that are of most value for the movement.
Yes, and no. I agree with you in principle (that is, the plenary sessions tend to have too little focus on direct volunteer impact), but that is not something that is missing by design but by lack of an actual session to present.
I made a presentation on the featured speakers track in London that was all about specific users and projects and it was very enthusiastically received - by the programme committee and the audience - so it's clear that there is desire to have such presentations. But they first have to be proposed (please do so!).
That said, one idea I had been toying with for 2017 was to have an award ceremony for the most impactful volunteers of the (2016) year - kinda like Jimmy's Wikipedian of the year award, only selected by the community and with a much wider scope. It's only half-baked, because it's a really complicated and delicate thing to do *right* (who picks, how are nominations made, how to avoid neglecting the non-english-Wikipedia contributors, etc). If it can be made to work right, I'd make it a big focus of the closing ceremony. And probably try to find where Philippe found the actual physical barnstars to give out. :-)
And I'd very much like this to become a yearly thing; not just a one-off for 2017.
-- Marc
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