Cute story about Wikimania from foundation-l. :-)
Haha, something like this happened to me a couple of weeks ago, but with the argentinian flag (due to soccer fandom), I helped a cousin of mine move a couple of weeks ago, and he left an argentinian flag in my car (he's a big fan of the argentinian soccer team, I'm a sucker for the french team though hehe) maybe it was a sign hehe.
On a related note, I bought the roundtrip tickets from caracas to buenos aires on monday :).
Tip, travel agent said to totally avoid Aerolineas Argentinas supposedly they suck really bad, so I went with LAN, they're part of the oneworld alliance so I'm getting miles I can use on american airlines.
Regards,
Damian -----Original Message----- From: Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:44:00 To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimania-l] slightly OT; Fwd: [Foundation-l] A funny coincidence
Cute story about Wikimania from foundation-l. :-)
Michael, the 25 cents you found are part of the Wikimedia Argentina's viral campaign to bring people to Wikimedia 2009 in Buenos Aires. I'm glad to hear the research we conducted was right, and people get the urge to make use of those 25 cents and spend a couple of Franklings to do so. I'm currently in Europe spreading the campaign.
BTW, Aerolineas Argentinas is in the process of being statized; I don't know if that means it is better than before or more chaotic.
Good wiking, Mariano.
--- Damian Finol damian@igluve.org escribió:
Haha, something like this happened to me a couple of weeks ago, but with the argentinian flag (due to soccer fandom), I helped a cousin of mine move a couple of weeks ago, and he left an argentinian flag in my car (he's a big fan of the argentinian soccer team, I'm a sucker for the french team though hehe) maybe it was a sign hehe.
On a related note, I bought the roundtrip tickets from caracas to buenos aires on monday :).
Tip, travel agent said to totally avoid Aerolineas Argentinas supposedly they suck really bad, so I went with LAN, they're part of the oneworld alliance so I'm getting miles I can use on american airlines.
Regards,
Damian -----Original Message----- From: Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:44:00 To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimania-l] slightly OT; Fwd: [Foundation-l] A funny coincidence
Cute story about Wikimania from foundation-l. :-)
-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:04 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] A funny coincidence To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On Tuesday, after Kat and I had spent a couple days assisting Sue and Erik with interviews for the CPO position (an intriguing group of candidates, by the way), I was at the BART station on my way to the airport. I bought my ticket from the machine, and when I pulled my receipt out of the dispenser, I also found a 25-cent piece. Once I got a closer look I realized why somebody might not have bothered to take their change - it wasn't a U.S. quarter. Neither was it Canadian, though, which is what you would typically find in that case. Of all things, it happened to be Argentine, so 25 centavos actually.
I have no idea how 25 centavos from Argentina ended up in San Francisco, in just the right place for me to pick them up. It was quite amusing to me to think that later this year I'll actually be in Buenos Aires, I suppose I should bring it with me whether I spend it or not. Anyway, I'm looking forward to Wikimania, and seeing any of you that are able to make it.
--Michael Snow
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Mariano Cecowski < marianocecowski@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
BTW, Aerolineas Argentinas is in the process of being statized; I don't know if that means it is better than before or more chaotic.
Good wiking, Mariano.
On this point, the airline was deliberately destroyed by a series of bad administrations during the last years. Take into account that is this phase, and not the current nationalization, what gave Aerolíneas Argentinas the reputation that the travel agent told Damián. While it is true that Aerolíneas may not be compared with, say, Air France, it's certainly not Air Koryo. Punctuality and fulfilment of sheduled flights, that were the main problems mainly due to lack of available airplanes, have dramatically improved during the last months. As for flight safety, Aerolíneas has one of the best records out there.
I would not *earnestly* recommend you to flight with Aerolíneas Argentinas. First you may want to compare prices, just to start with. But if any of you just need or happen to take an Aerolíneas flight, don't be afraid at all. It used to suck badly because of problems other than planes going into the water ;).
Saludos.
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