Hello,
For those who just joined the discussion, the conference draft link is
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2018
For those with facebook accounts, there is an Asia-Pacific Wikimedians
group:
http://facebook.com/wikimedia.asia
Butch
PH/SG/MY
On Aug 22, 2017 8:08 PM, "Yusuke Matsubara" <whym(a)whym.org> wrote:
If we want to expand the cap (if not to 100, maybe 70 or something),
what can the rest of us provide to make the host more
comfortable/confident? What help is needed? I believe that there are
other resources than the venue capacity that might limit the event
size.
Anyway, I think the cap should be whatever number the host feels
comfortable to manage - organizing an event larger than the
organizer's capacity can be exhausting.
Yusuke
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with doing a small conference first, I thought that given what is
available
as venues in Indonesia that a 100 person event over two days all
in one hotel(Like Berlin 2017) somewhere would be quite manageable. The
target of 50 I thought would be too small to be able to get a good cross
section of participants from enough communities. As part of this is going
bigger the smaller the initial number the less able we will be to build
sufficient momentum for the next one. Also small size can have a negative
effect of being seen as an event for those privileged usual suspects.
On 22 August 2017 at 12:03, Biyanto Rebin <biyanto.rebin(a)wikimedia.or.id>
wrote:
>
> Hello Gideon,
>
> We expect to run ESEAP conference first as ESEAP representative in
Wikimedia
Conference already discuss it before, so it should be not more
than 50 participants, as we would like to increase the community
participants in ESEAP region. ESEAP region is also more underrepresented in
Wikimedia movements than other community. When we gather together in
conference, we miss out people from Brunei, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos,
Cambodia, Timor Leste even Vietnam as well as Indonesian and Australian.
> That's the reason why we should try to do a
small conference first,
after that we can do together a bigger conference such as
Asian Conference.
We can start to work with another region and especially Indian community
who have established a good event, such as WikiConference India.
> Is this reasonable for you?
>
> Cheers,
>
> 2017-08-22 10:54 GMT+07:00 Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>
>> Kaya Ivonne,
>>
>> I applaud your cautious approach but please could you look to say 100
participants as 50 will see too many people unable to be part of the event
especially given the number of communities and just the FB group that were
talking last night about this had over 60 participants, I suspect that this
mailing list also has more than 50.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Gideon aka Gnangarra
>>
>> On 22 August 2017 at 11:44, Ivonne Kristiani <
ivonne.kristiani(a)wikimedia.or.id> wrote:
>>>
>>> We would love to host Asian Conference, but considering that it will
be
the first time for WMID to host such a huge regional conference and also
taking into account the time span and resources for preparing the
conference, we prefer to start small and we cap the participants to 50
people max, from ESEAP. Afterwards, we can discuss about the possibility of
hosting a bigger conference.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ivonne Kristiani | Wakil Ketua (Deputy Chair) 2017-2018
>>> Wikimedia Indonesia
>>> Ph. +628 96 434 28 091
>>> ~~~~
>>> Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan:
>>>
http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi
>>>
>>>
>>>
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