Two weeks ago, five weekends were noted as potentials for Wikimania; of these, the first weekend in August was the most popular. The prime con for those days was that flights overseas might be more expensive for those dates than for a few weeks earlier; but no specific differential was found (at least when comparing prices this far in advance).

There was a concern last week that it might be hard to get the right rooms in early August, due to construction or conflicts. Yesterday Erica (at Harvard) was able to hold a good selection of both rooms and dorms for August 3-6, so that weekend looks promising.

There was a program-only meeting on Wednesday; you can see the raw transcript here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Planning/2005-11-23 it's long... minutes are forthcoming (also for the meeting this past weekend).

Key outcomes : Tracks were discussed; a few people listed some of their preferred tracks. We should decide on exactly what submission guidelines should be for a CfP; and on how people should submit (related point : what conference software to use). Draft text for a CfP will be worked on for next week. We would like to be able to send out a CfP by January. As a step toward forming a proper program committee, people were asked to note their interest in program-work on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Teams

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