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(a)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
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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 15:35:04 +0300
From: James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Thank you Wikimedia Israel!
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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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM, KIZU Naoko <aphaia(a)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
>