On 10/10/2007, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
On 10/9/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Certainly the track record of selections is far more appealing to *me* as a jetsetter than as a Wikipedian... and as long as we're still looking at airfare well over $1000/person (which wouldn't be the case for me traveling to canada, mexico, or much of western europe), my money would be better spent contributing to other non-profits and traveling to regional Wikipedian events. (And certainly, I don't find Egypt appealing, with its poor track record of intolerance and mistreatment of female travelers who are foolish enough to violate Islamic norms)
Agreed. Is there anything stopping people from organizing an event somewhere that isn't so expensive?
"Expensive for me" you mean? Someone always loses out.
It would be cool to have an actually useful conference. Since so many people that work on Wikipedia, Commons etc are English speaking when the conference is in places like Taipei and Alexandria it seems like it's more for fun than anything worthwhile for me, being primarily interested in enwiki.
"Actually useful"? I don't see how the location changes the usefulnes of the conference...
As someone else suggested, hosting local Wikimanias is a good option. Why not get behind Atlanta (I assume you live in the US as you agree with Greg's comments) and organise a US Wikimania maybe a couple of weeks before or after the official one.
regards, Brianna