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: 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. wrote: 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. 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. 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. ivonne.kristiani(a)wikimedia.or.id> wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters