On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:11:09PM +0100, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Absolutely if someone does come from a country that has laws against their attending then we should do our best to keep them safe.
I don't think it's really against the law anywhere, and we haven't heard reports about there being any issues (I did ask explicitly).
The problem is that BDS (and others?) are explicitly acting against wikimania. I'd love to hear more reports on this. I think having a wikimania in haifa is actually going to be beneficial to all parties. :-)
For starters I think we need to figure out why palestinians aren't attending. If it's really a small sample, it might simply be because none happen to have time.
Could folks ask around on their home wikis ?
sincerely, Kim Bruning