Dear organizers (hopefully someone can forward it to those not on this list)<br><br>thank you so much for putting the time and dedication into this years wikimania. Organizing a conference of this size with attendees who have such high demands and expectations is as always hard, and I think it deserves an applause no matter whether some things did not go as planned. <br>

It was a very difficult organizing this year, the bumps in the road were numerous and I would like to explicitely thank all those volunteers who were not a part of the bidding team but stepped in when their help was most needed. Several people who live outside Poland suddenly lived for a few weeks in an appartment in Gdansk together - leaving their lives for what they were - and had to make horrible long hours to make the conference to what it has become. I have deep appreciation for those people and I think it is quite unique and wonderful to have such a volunteer base to fall back onto. <br>

But also &quot;the people we did not see&quot; did a tremendous amount of work in the past weeks. I remember that I slipped a few days before the conference that it would be nice to have X in the attendee packages, and the next day they were suddenly arranged! <br>

I dont dare to call out the specific people, being afraid of missing several - I have only seen so much of it. I do hope to have the opportunity of seeing many of you irl again soon! <br><br>many hugs,<br><br>Lodewijk<br>