Hi folks,
Registration is now open, and I'd like to get the "in crowd" processed before the onslaught brought on by the press release. If there are any fundamental problems be encountered in the process, I'd rather you guys find them, rather than some random dude who read about Wikimania in a magazine.
So by all means, register, but only if your schedule is firm and you're prepared to shell out the fee for admission: http://wm06reg/wikimedia.org/
Austin
That's a mighty fine-looking registration form. An extra slash, though; here's an active URL : http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/
For those not sure where they want to stay : if they register to attend now, can they add a room reservation later? Would that be by email?
Other relevant dates, for those planning their travels: July 30 - August 3 : SIGGRAPH Boston August 1-3 : Hacking Days August 7 : Citizen Journalism "unconference", various field trips
SJ
Austin Hair scribed:
So by all means, register, but only if your schedule is firm and you're prepared to shell out the fee for admission: http://wm06reg/wikimedia.org/
On 5/4/06, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
That's a mighty fine-looking registration form. An extra slash, though; here's an active URL : http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/
Whoops, good catch.
For those not sure where they want to stay : if they register to attend now, can they add a room reservation later? Would that be by email?
You can e-mail us about adding a dorm to your ticket, but with only ~250 rooms you don't have long to wait.
Austin
That's a mighty fine-looking registration form. An extra slash, though; here's an active URL : http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/
For those not sure where they want to stay : if they register to attend now, can they add a room reservation later? Would that be by email?
Other relevant dates, for those planning their travels: July 30 - August 3 : SIGGRAPH Boston August 1-3 : Hacking Days August 7 : Citizen Journalism "unconference", various field trips
SJ
Austin Hair scribed:
So by all means, register, but only if your schedule is firm and you're prepared to shell out the fee for admission: http://wm06reg/wikimedia.org/
By the way, the way my firefox is set up, visiting the original link took me to this page, which fooled me for a long moment... http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/waste06/documents/WM06reg.pdf
That group knows how to clean up : charge $400 a day for 'documentation and refreshment', and charge extra for keeping their accepted paper submissions "permanently and openly accessible to the scientific community".
SJ
On 5/4/06, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
Registration is now open, and I'd like to get the "in crowd" processed before the onslaught brought on by the press release. If there are any fundamental problems be encountered in the process, I'd rather you guys find them, rather than some random dude who read about Wikimania in a magazine.
So by all means, register, but only if your schedule is firm and you're prepared to shell out the fee for admission: http://wm06reg/wikimedia.org/
Austin _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
-- ++SJ
Yeah, same thing happened to me SJ. Made me smile.
Carl
P.S. Anyone want to talk trash for 1,250 Euros on Malta before Wikimania? ;-)
Carl Robert Blesius http://lcs.mgh.harvard.edu http://blesius.org
On May 4, 2006, at 7:58 PM, SJ wrote:
By the way, the way my firefox is set up, visiting the original link took me to this page, which fooled me for a long moment... http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/waste06/documents/WM06reg.pdf
That group knows how to clean up : charge $400 a day for 'documentation and refreshment', and charge extra for keeping their accepted paper submissions "permanently and openly accessible to the scientific community".
SJ
On 5/4/06, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
Registration is now open, and I'd like to get the "in crowd" processed before the onslaught brought on by the press release. If there are any fundamental problems be encountered in the process, I'd rather you guys find them, rather than some random dude who read about Wikimania in a magazine.
So by all means, register, but only if your schedule is firm and you're prepared to shell out the fee for admission: http://wm06reg/wikimedia.org/
Austin _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
On 5/4/06, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
By the way, the way my firefox is set up, visiting the original link took me to this page, which fooled me for a long moment... http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/waste06/documents/WM06reg.pdf
That group knows how to clean up : charge $400 a day for 'documentation and refreshment', and charge extra for keeping their accepted paper submissions "permanently and openly accessible to the scientific community".
Don't think the thought didn't cross our minds.
Austin
Austin Hair wrote:
Registration is now open, and I'd like to get the "in crowd" processed before the onslaught brought on by the press release. If there are any fundamental problems be encountered in the process, I'd rather you guys find them, rather than some random dude who read about Wikimania in a magazine.
The box for selecting your 'Project' is awfully small; at least for me it only fits two characters, but some of our languages are three or more characters. You can type more but it's ugly and uncomfortable. (I put in 'meta'. :) I'd recommend padding it out a bit longer.
"Primary language" doesn't have an "Other" option, and it's "mandatory". While there are a lot of languages listed, it's nice to allow the occasional rare freaks to register. :)
"Country" isn't clear about whether it's your current country of residence, or your nationality.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 5/4/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
The box for selecting your 'Project' is awfully small; at least for me it only fits two characters, but some of our languages are three or more characters. You can type more but it's ugly and uncomfortable. (I put in 'meta'. :) I'd recommend padding it out a bit longer.
Yeah, it lets you write out "commons" if you want to (and I put "meta"), but I made it two characters long because I was worried people would be confused about what format we're expecting. I suppose it can't hurt to make it three ("meta" usually fits in 3em, and commons people will live).
"Primary language" doesn't have an "Other" option, and it's "mandatory". While there are a lot of languages listed, it's nice to allow the occasional rare freaks to register. :)
Volapük's in there, for crying out loud; if you're too freaky for ISO 639, I doubt you'll be able to communicate with anyone.
"Country" isn't clear about whether it's your current country of residence, or your nationality.
You can take your pick. The only place it matters is elsewhere in the form, where the (normally hidden) visa fieldset asks you for "nationality" as given on your passport itself. ("Nationality" doesn't actually correspond with the list of nation-states listed there, and should technically be an adjective anyway.)
Last year I wrote "nation-state affiliation." Does anyone like that better?
Austin
I couldn't get language or country input boxes working (IE6 WinXP--Firefox doesn't work now). I'll try again on another computer, but I was wondering if the form might be a little more intuitive.
-Mysekurity
On 5/4/06, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
Registration is now open, and I'd like to get the "in crowd" processed before the onslaught brought on by the press release. If there are any fundamental problems be encountered in the process, I'd rather you guys find them, rather than some random dude who read about Wikimania in a magazine.
So by all means, register, but only if your schedule is firm and you're prepared to shell out the fee for admission: http://wm06reg/wikimedia.org/
Austin _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
On 5/4/06, mysekurity mysekurity@gmail.com wrote:
I couldn't get language or country input boxes working (IE6 WinXP--Firefox doesn't work now). I'll try again on another computer, but I was wondering if the form might be a little more intuitive.
I'm not sure why that wouldn't be working for you—they're both standard option/select dropdown boxes from HTML 2.
Austin
Tried it on a different comp and it worked perfectly. I'll finish the registration tonight.
Thanks!
Thank you for registration team also, all was perfect as for me. I hope things were same for other all.
Is there a list of participants by language & nationality? I need the former as reference for consider the future language policy for the Foundation as Comcom member, and would like to know the latter just mainly from curiosity. I heard there were over 400 people from around 100 countries, but I gave up to sum countries of participants when I counted around 30 countries & areas... and personally I think it is good for us to give such a flavour to Conference description based on accurate data.
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