On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Alice Wiegand me.lyzzy@gmail.com wrote:
Is this really a discussion about the name of a conference or is it more a discussion about inclusion and exclusion with the underlying question if this conference, which once was set up as a meeting for the organizations within the Wikimedia movement, should be open for non-organized Wikimedians as well. Which would probably be a different conference.
I think this discussion is both. But the immediate, acute, and solvable problem (the inaccurate name of the conference) should not be ignored, just because there *might* be a larger, hazier problem that will not be solved today or tomorrow. Some progress is better than no progress.
Personally, I have no problem with the existence of the conference, but I find its name alienating. Not everyone agrees with that assessment, but clearly some others in this thread do.
Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]