Just to add - transportation was not a consideration to moving the conference to the Hilton, however this solved the serious transportation issues, and allowed starting the conference an hour earlier every day, and ending later, thus allowing time in the scheduled and allowing acceptance of about 30 more talks.Deror (Programme team) From: "wikimania-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org" wikimania-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org To: wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 3:00 PM Subject: Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 113, Issue 9

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1. Re: remind me - where was the discussion and    explanation on       changing the venue?... (Ellie Young)   2. Re: remind me - where was the discussion and explanation on       changing the venue?... (Joseph Fox)   3. Re: Fwd: Wikimania Scholarship (praveenp)

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Message: 1 Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 15:23:12 -0700 From: Ellie Young eyoung@wikimedia.org To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"     wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] remind me - where was the discussion and     explanation on changing the venue?... Message-ID: E6F9AEF4-4AD9-46E8-B507-20885D49DAD7@wikimedia.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Back in May when we announced to this mailing list that registration was open we included the following:

* WMF and WM-MX are grateful to Conaculta and the Biblioteca Vasconcelos for their kind offer to host the conference at the magnificent Biblioteca.  However, due to logistical issues, we had to  change the venue  to the Hilton Hotel La Reforma. We will continue to work with both Conaculta and the Biblioteca Vasconcelos to leverage the experience and capacity of all institutions to generate and disseminate content that guarantees free and open knowledge to the whole of society. The biggest logistical issue at the Biblioteca that wasn’t resolved at that time was being able to guarantee that our connectivity requirements could be met.

Ellie Young WMF Conference Coordinator

On Aug 2, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:

Hello,

In the 2014 Wikimania bidding process the library was advertised as the conference venue. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City/Biblioteca_V... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos>

At some point the venue changed to the Hilton Hotel.

I had been excited that there would be a conference in a library. We had a nice conference just the same.

Where can I find whatever published explanation and discussion there has been about the venue change?

Also- thanks to all volunteer organizers for presenting a great Mexico conference. Everyone who contributed should be very proud and I hope that no one criticizes anything that any of the volunteers did. The conference was great thanks to the volunteer organizers.

Thanks,

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