Hello Wikimanians
"Poor us, Europeans", I thought when it became clear that wikimania (or how we'll call it this year) will be held in Boston. So far away, and só expensive... A ticket costs soon €500,--, and then we have to sleep, eat, drink, and have some fun. a lot more then I spend usually on my hollidays :P
So I wanted something else for the poor people who can't afford it to buy a ticket etc. Something in here. And I thought up some kind of own, a lot shorter conference, in the Netherlands. Organized by the Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (Dutch Chapter) I hope to have a conference of one (or maybe two, but probably not) day(s) with some lectures of Wikimania, but also, very important, discussiongroups ''about'' the subjects that were mentioned during Wikimania. Some workshops (how to bot etc) and these small-scaled discussiongroups should make the conference different from the Wikimania in Boston, especially because it will be for the largest part in Dutch :) This way I hope to get a bunch of people together, to let the community get to know eachother, to make friends irl, but also not to kill Boston in its number of visitors because we attract a lot of people. It will become a conference with a very different character if it's up to me, however it will have a link with the Boston-conference. The link will on my behalf exist mostly in the subjects and some speakers, and of course I hope to get the Dutch and Flemish enthousiastic for both events. It will be a great impuls for the Dutch community (and as you probably already all know, we NEED THAT ;-) ) and for the Vereniging. As you are all working very hard on getting a program together for Boston, and orginizing a great event in Boston, I would like to hear your opinion about this. I can take those advises into the plans to create something approaching perfect :P Please give your comments on this and (i need that really) keep me somehow please informed about the growing of the program (as long as it is not discussed on this list) because unfortunately MetaWiki is a true MazeWiki. Thank you in advance.
greeting from the Netherlands, Effeietsanders
That reminds me; in case anyone's not aware, this year's Wiki Symposium (WikiSym) will be in Denmark this August, colocated with the ACM Hypertext 2006 conference.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hi Effeitsanders,
Are you thinking of organizing something during the summer holidays, in the weeks following Wikimania? Or at a later time during the year? I hear being Dutch gives one an inherited advantage when it comes to throwing parties...
--SJ
On 2/2/06, effeietsanders-list effeietsanders.l@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Wikimanians
"Poor us, Europeans", I thought when it became clear that wikimania (or how we'll call it this year) will be held in Boston. So far away, and só expensive... A ticket costs soon €500,--, and then we have to sleep, eat, drink, and have some fun. a lot more then I spend usually on my hollidays :P So I wanted something else for the poor people who can't afford it to buy a ticket etc. Something in here. And I thought up some kind of own, a lot shorter conference, in the Netherlands. Organized by the Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (Dutch Chapter) I hope to have a conference of one (or maybe two, but probably not) day(s) with some lectures of Wikimania, but also, very important, discussiongroups ''about'' the subjects that were mentioned during Wikimania. Some workshops (how to bot etc) and these small-scaled discussiongroups should make the conference different from the Wikimania in Boston, especially because it will be for the largest part in Dutch :) This way I hope to get a bunch of people together, to let the community get to know eachother, to make friends irl, but also not to kill Boston in its number of visitors because we attract a lot of people. It will become a conference with a very different character if it's up to me, however it will have a link with the Boston-conference. The link will on my behalf exist mostly in the subjects and some speakers, and of course I hope to get the Dutch and Flemish enthousiastic for both events. It will be a great impuls for the Dutch community (and as you probably already all know, we NEED THAT ;-) ) and for the Vereniging. As you are all working very hard on getting a program together for Boston, and orginizing a great event in Boston, I would like to hear your opinion about this. I can take those advises into the plans to create something approaching perfect :P Please give your comments on this and (i need that really) keep me somehow please informed about the growing of the program (as long as it is not discussed on this list) because unfortunately MetaWiki is a true MazeWiki. Thank you in advance.
greeting from the Netherlands, Effeietsanders
Hi SJ,
The Conference was planned at first around the 20th of august, because that is still in the hollidays indeed but also a few weeks (to have some rest after a exhausting wikimania ;-) ) after "Boston". That would be a ideal time imho. But of course I have to await some community imput. Now I see Brion's mail of Wikisym, so I'll put it into the discussion. Maybe we don't care, maybe we do, as I don't know how much Dutch people want to go to Danmark etc. :) (thank you brion for mentioning it)
Btw I forgot to metion that probably Kennisnet will be able to sponsor a location, laptops and beamer(s), and maybe even streaming :) Of course this makes it all a lot more fun :)
greetings, Effeietsanders
2006/2/2, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com:
Hi Effeitsanders,
Are you thinking of organizing something during the summer holidays, in the weeks following Wikimania? Or at a later time during the year? I hear being Dutch gives one an inherited advantage when it comes to throwing parties...
--SJ
On 2/2/06, effeietsanders-list effeietsanders.l@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Wikimanians
"Poor us, Europeans", I thought when it became clear that wikimania (or
how
we'll call it this year) will be held in Boston. So far away, and só expensive... A ticket costs soon €500,--, and then we have to sleep,
eat,
drink, and have some fun. a lot more then I spend usually on my
hollidays :P
So I wanted something else for the poor people who can't afford it to
buy a
ticket etc. Something in here. And I thought up some kind of own, a lot shorter conference, in the Netherlands. Organized by the Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (Dutch Chapter) I hope to have a conference of one
(or
maybe two, but probably not) day(s) with some lectures of Wikimania, but also, very important, discussiongroups ''about'' the subjects that were mentioned during Wikimania. Some workshops (how to bot etc) and these small-scaled discussiongroups should make the conference different from
the
Wikimania in Boston, especially because it will be for the largest part
in
Dutch :) This way I hope to get a bunch of people together, to let the community get to know eachother, to make friends irl, but also not to
kill
Boston in its number of visitors because we attract a lot of people. It will become a conference with a very different character if it's up
to
me, however it will have a link with the Boston-conference. The link
will on
my behalf exist mostly in the subjects and some speakers, and of course
I
hope to get the Dutch and Flemish enthousiastic for both events. It will
be
a great impuls for the Dutch community (and as you probably already all know, we NEED THAT ;-) ) and for the Vereniging. As you are all working very hard on getting a program together for
Boston,
and orginizing a great event in Boston, I would like to hear your
opinion
about this. I can take those advises into the plans to create something approaching perfect :P Please give your comments on this and (i need
that
really) keep me somehow please informed about the growing of the program
(as
long as it is not discussed on this list) because unfortunately MetaWiki
is
a true MazeWiki. Thank you in advance.
greeting from the Netherlands, Effeietsanders
Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
On 2/2/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
That reminds me; in case anyone's not aware, this year's Wiki Symposium (WikiSym) will be in Denmark this August, colocated with the ACM Hypertext 2006 conference.
Yes, speaking of conferences that will be very different from Wikimania. If you've been hacking or installing lots of wikis lately (if only in your dreams), you should consider going.
SJ
wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org