Lodewijk, the main reason that I can think of to have a separate event is lack of room in the Wikimania conference schedule to have a group of sessions that are targeted to North Americans.
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Nathan, I don't object at all to any wikiconference. I just miss the point of having North Americans present their projects away from the international crowd, to only their fellow-north americans. If there is something very particular that makes these talks unsuitable for people from other continents, I'd really like to understand that better.
Like I said, I'm not aware of any such track or preconference in other countries, with a few exceptions where language played a major role (I think there was a Spanish track in both Buenos Aires and Mexico, and a Hebrew (education?) track in Haifa). Also in an Asian context I'd have a hard time imagining why you would make that so specific to that region - except if it is really tied to language.
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2016-07-06 19:33 GMT+02:00 Nathan nawrich@gmail.com:
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Still I wonder: what would be the kind of topics you'd like to schedule there that you would /not/ want non-North Americans to participate in?
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Lodewijk, would you object to an Asian or Indian Subcontinent Wikiconference that allowed people in similar geographic and cultural milieus to cooperate, share experiences and challenges and strengthen relationships? I doubt it, I'm not sure why a NA Wikiconference would be different.
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