Hello everyone,
I have spent some time in the last 3-4 days looking around, trying to dig information about what was happening about Wikimania.
First, I would like to say that I am very excited Wikimania will be in Taipei. Not only because it will be a great opportunity to see Taiwan. But also because I see Wikimania as a extraordinary opportunity for the editors to get to know others better. This is already happening, when I see editors from Taiwan, from Germany, from the USA, from France, working together to make that event happen.
I have rather little helped preparing Wikimania in the previous years. But I was a participant. And I had a great time. Wikimania is probably the most important event of the year for the community. It is the moment when people can meet and can talk together. This is a fabulous experience.
Right now, I am sure that for some of you, it appears tiring and difficult. I am sure that you sometimes lack courage, because it is a lot of work, few people see you doing it, sometimes trying to find a sponsor does not succeed. But if you look at it, the conference is getting a little bit more real everyday.
So, keep faith (you are welcome to tell me the same when I am lacking courage myself).
The Foundation will help as much as possible on its part.
Erik is currently involved in the program. I read the notes of the last meeting and it looks as if things are moving nicely.
I will have a look on the budget with Theodoranian and all those involved in it in a few days. It seems Frances, Tzu-chiang and Alice are working hard on the sponsorships. Danny from the Foundation will also bring some help to get some more sponsors. Pyb is also willing to give a hand. What I hope is that we can have more money this year, so as to help more people to join.
Registration seems to be the hot topic of the moment. I suggest that once registration system is open, we could not only mention it on lists, but also on the Foundation website, and possibly inform the sign post and Walter from wikizine to reach a larger audience. I am willing to help you here if necessary. We need visitors from everywhere :-)
According to the website, it seems that venue is having hard time. Would it help to ask for more volunteers ? I intend to give you more information probably within 2 weeks for when the board meeting will take place (probably before Wikimania). But this is a detail.
I'll try to stick around so as to see how I can help. But essentially, thank you for the great work.
Anthere
Oh and... happy new year tomorrow to the chinese community !
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:New_Year_Scene.jpg
anthere
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Florence Devouard wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have spent some time in the last 3-4 days looking around, trying to dig information about what was happening about Wikimania.
First, I would like to say that I am very excited Wikimania will be in Taipei. Not only because it will be a great opportunity to see Taiwan. But also because I see Wikimania as a extraordinary opportunity for the editors to get to know others better. This is already happening, when I see editors from Taiwan, from Germany, from the USA, from France, working together to make that event happen.
I have rather little helped preparing Wikimania in the previous years. But I was a participant. And I had a great time. Wikimania is probably the most important event of the year for the community. It is the moment when people can meet and can talk together. This is a fabulous experience.
Right now, I am sure that for some of you, it appears tiring and difficult. I am sure that you sometimes lack courage, because it is a lot of work, few people see you doing it, sometimes trying to find a sponsor does not succeed. But if you look at it, the conference is getting a little bit more real everyday.
So, keep faith (you are welcome to tell me the same when I am lacking courage myself).
The Foundation will help as much as possible on its part.
Erik is currently involved in the program. I read the notes of the last meeting and it looks as if things are moving nicely.
I will have a look on the budget with Theodoranian and all those involved in it in a few days. It seems Frances, Tzu-chiang and Alice are working hard on the sponsorships. Danny from the Foundation will also bring some help to get some more sponsors. Pyb is also willing to give a hand. What I hope is that we can have more money this year, so as to help more people to join.
Registration seems to be the hot topic of the moment. I suggest that once registration system is open, we could not only mention it on lists, but also on the Foundation website, and possibly inform the sign post and Walter from wikizine to reach a larger audience. I am willing to help you here if necessary. We need visitors from everywhere :-)
According to the website, it seems that venue is having hard time. Would it help to ask for more volunteers ? I intend to give you more information probably within 2 weeks for when the board meeting will take place (probably before Wikimania). But this is a detail.
I'll try to stick around so as to see how I can help. But essentially, thank you for the great work.
Anthere
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Good message,
I think registration should be done a bit faster, a lot of people right now need visas to enter Taiwan and for people in Third world countries it can be a month or two of waiting.
Regards,
- -- Ing. Damian Finol Ingeniero en Informática Caracas, Venezuela.
On 2/17/07, Damian Finol damian@igluve.org wrote:
Florance a dit:
According to the website, it seems that venue is having hard time. Would it help to ask for more volunteers ?
Certainly. There are many benevolent people listed themselves as translators. It would be a time to remind them now they can help the website development?
Besides that, if Chinese bilinguals (like zho-eng, zho-fra speakers) help translations, development of content could be accelerated.
I think registration should be done a bit faster, a lot of people right now need visas to enter Taiwan and for people in Third world countries it can be a month or two of waiting.
Good point. I assume that was indeed why the Taipei team planned the registration system to open on February 15 in their first schedule. In the past two years it had been opened in April, if I recall correctly. It is marvelous we see how the team for this year conference is ambitious and tireless to pursue good organization ...! On registration issue, apparently they tried to do it faster than any other precedent. There could be something you can help - please visit the website and seek what you can offer to help.
Cheers,
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