White Cat wrote:
I am trying to plan and prepare a 3day EuroWikimaniahttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EuroWikimania. While I am still negotiating an exact date the conference probably will be held at late January or early February.
Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish chapter, is 1 of 3 co-organizers of the FSCONS conference in Göteborg on October 24-26, 2008.
FSCONS started last year as the Free Software Conference Scandinavia, organized by the Free Software Foundation-Europe, which has offices in Göteborg. This year's conference has kept the short name but dropped the long one, and is co-organized with Creative Commons.SE and Wikimedia Sverige.
If I have any personal opinion about a "Euro Wikimania" it is that the name Wikimania will be confused with the large international event, and that Europe is too big to function as a region. I doubt that many Swedes will travel to Istanbul for a conference that isn't global. We had better aim for one regional conference in each corner of Europe, each covering a radius of 1000 km.