It isn't TED, but from the get go I've had outreach as a primary goal with this event, and I've been planning and programming with that in mind. This doesn't have to set a precedent for future Wikimanias. Technical concerns aside, what negative outcomes are you imagining?
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On 15 April 2014 10:28, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
To be honest I'm not completely sure I'm comfortable with that level of advertising (in fact it makes me very very uncomfortable) even if it works technically. This isn't TED....and I would hate to see it turn into that especially given the wide variety in organizers each year.
James
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Philippe Beaudette < philippe@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Edward Saperia ed@wikimanialondon.orgwrote:
The livestreams will be promoted via a centralnotice
My understanding is that this is far from a decided thing. There are still some massive concerns about your servers rolling over and dying with the traffic we send from this - particularly for streaming video which is already a bandwidth hog. I'd want to see some testing first.
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