Dear Wikimaniacs,

Alexandria was a blast, and over much too fast. I'm still processing the photos I took (my camera was imediately snagged by my friend Julia who is off in Thailand this week, and I forgot to offload my SD card), but I hope to share the images from the children's library, which was fabulous. And the last night of revelry... Thanks to everyone who helped pull off such a delightful event! For those who couldn't make it this year, I think what I missed most was the lack of Calvinball -- but the beach and the artefact museum hidden in the basement of the venue more than made up for it.

I was particularly cheered by the interest and participation from local students and hackers, and need to finish learning Arabic so that I can follow up on ar:wp . Is there an Arabic-language overview of the conference and related press that I can point people to? And do we have a shared delicious tagset?

Regards to new friends and old -- say hello on Skype if you see me -- and I hope we may meet again soon, one way or another;

SJ -- skype:metasj +1 617 529 4266