I would like to thank the organizers of Wikimania 2011, and the volunteers involved. I would like to thank for their concern about safety, effort and hard work.
The event management was great. We didn't have to worry about anything at all and things were much better than I had ever thought it would be. In overall Wikimania 2011 was a great success!.
At the airport everyone knew about Wikimania and even in the passport control, during security checking the staffs knew that we were from Wikimania by just looking at our T-shirts and badges inside our luggage and gave us special preferences, took off from long queues and put at the front row, had less trouble getting in and out just because I had the Wikimania badges, tags and the T-shirt. :)
Thank you Wikimania 2011 team and all the best for Wikimania 2012 team.
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM, KIZU Naoko aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
+1
+1 indeed. Wikimania 2011 was an awesome conference. Everything the organizers could control came close to perfection; they did a great job. The only thing you guys couldn't do was avoid the Wikimania Heat Curse, but that's hardly your fault :)
In particular, the high-profile Israeli speakers you attracted were great. I forget their names, but the talks from Prof. Benkler (sp? I mean the Harvard prof) and the Knesset committee chair were very good.
(I hear Washington is gonna be about as hot as Haifa, albeit with less humidity. Wikimania 2013 in Reykjavik? Maybe we can make peace with the volcano that way too. :D)
You the team rocks. Not only the conference in general I mean here - you guys could have ignored some petty minor requests and inquires just saying "it's out of our business" "we're busy". Sometimes I even felt guilty to see your team's quick responses to the list and elsewhere.
I experienced the same thing: after asserting on identi.ca and Twitter that WM11 would have streaming, I got 3 or 4 replies from different organizers correcting me and apologizing for the lack of streaming, all in a few hours. Special thanks in this category to Danny B, who gave me the impression he had made it his personal mission to look after me, getting me water when I was presenting and polaroid pictures at the party, even though I'm sure he was plenty busy with other things.
I wish the WM11 team lots of recovery sleep after what I'm sure has been an exhausting week, and the WM12 team the best of luck trying to live up to this excellent example.
Roan
Message: 3 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 15:35:04 +0300 From: James Hare messedrocker@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Thank you Wikimedia Israel! To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: A50E8285-2E57-437A-BCC4-3EF078720904@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Washington is about as hot as Haifa but *more* humid.
Sent from my iPhone (sorry for top posting)
On Aug 8, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM, KIZU Naoko aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
+1
+1 indeed. Wikimania 2011 was an awesome conference. Everything the organizers could control came close to perfection; they did a great job. The only thing you guys couldn't do was avoid the Wikimania Heat Curse, but that's hardly your fault :)
In particular, the high-profile Israeli speakers you attracted were great. I forget their names, but the talks from Prof. Benkler (sp? I mean the Harvard prof) and the Knesset committee chair were very good.
(I hear Washington is gonna be about as hot as Haifa, albeit with less humidity. Wikimania 2013 in Reykjavik? Maybe we can make peace with the volcano that way too. :D)
You the team rocks. Not only the conference in general I mean here - you guys could have ignored some petty minor requests and inquires just saying "it's out of our business" "we're busy". Sometimes I even felt guilty to see your team's quick responses to the list and elsewhere.
I experienced the same thing: after asserting on identi.ca and Twitter that WM11 would have streaming, I got 3 or 4 replies from different organizers correcting me and apologizing for the lack of streaming, all in a few hours. Special thanks in this category to Danny B, who gave me the impression he had made it his personal mission to look after me, getting me water when I was presenting and polaroid pictures at the party, even though I'm sure he was plenty busy with other things.
I wish the WM11 team lots of recovery sleep after what I'm sure has been an exhausting week, and the WM12 team the best of luck trying to live up to this excellent example.
Roan
On 9 August 2011 08:20, Rajesh Pandey pandey.pandey@gmail.com wrote:
At the airport everyone knew about Wikimania and even in the passport control, during security checking the staffs knew that we were from Wikimania by just looking at our T-shirts and badges inside our luggage and gave us special preferences, took off from long queues and put at the front row, had less trouble getting in and out just because I had the Wikimania badges, tags and the T-shirt. :)
Sadly this didn't work for Niklas: as soon as they've seen his Wikimania t-shirt they've taken him apart and they've questioned and inspected all his things and himself for 80 min...
Nemo
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