Thanks Florence, Phoebe. It's always nice to hear we did a good job, it makes us all
very proud.
I wanted to ask everyone to contribute to the feedback not only with prise, but also with
[constructive] critic. It will help us internally, and also the Wikimania 2010 organisers,
to learn from past mistakes.
We are also at complete disposition of the Polish team for what they might need, including
a self-review we are preparing.
We need to work together so that Wikimania will be every year better than the last one!
Thanks also to all the attendees; it was wonderful having you with us.
Cheers,
Mariano Cecowski.
--- El jue 3-sep-09, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> escribió:
Indeed, what Florence & everyone
said -- this year's Wikimania was
fantastic. There were several details that especially
shone:
- the great swag; the book was my favorite part
- the welcome dinner and all the nice information for
arriving attendees
- the tight moderation & room volunteer team, who kept
everything
cracking along on schedule; this team of folks deserves
extra applause
- simultaneous translation!!!
- videos of all the talks!!!!
- the great common areas
- coffee all the time :)
I also heard lots of praise for the conference program, and
for the
city itself. I also know a lot of work got done, and
hundreds of
interesting conversations were had; I hope a lot of good
results come
out of this year's conference.
Most of the details I listed above are based on ideas that
have come
out of past wikimanias; so I'd encourage everyone to post
their
feedback (let's start
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback
for survey-feedback, as well as
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2011)...
and if you're
interested, please help out with the planning for next year
and future
conferences if you can.
Thanks again to an organized, dedicated and responsive team
that spent
the past 18 months working on this conference; your hard
work
definitely paid off.
-- phoebe
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Florence Devouard<anthere(a)anthere.org>
wrote:
Nathan wrote:
> I wasn't there, but I'll echo Erik, Ting and Jerry
- from everything
> I've read, the organizers did a great job
and
really represented the
> Wikimedia community well. Thanks for your
hard
work and
> congratulations on a job well done.
>
> Nathan
After having been a member of the past 5 Wikimanias, I
have to outline
how nicely organized everything was. Indeed, the
bar
is raised very very
high now for the future events.
Great program, great people, great food, great
parties. Even
unexpectedly warm winter weather. Patricio, you
were
worried the first
day about the two event location... that was no
trouble whatsoever.
Thank you as well for the videos and live
streaming,
and for the
translation service.
Yeah, all of you guys did a great job !
ant
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