On 30/04/2013 11:49, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
My personal experience after being an active program
committee member
on the 2010 Wikimania Organizing Committee was that my activity there
(and I believe in the end of the day we did a good job - for example,
we managed to accept all submissions with a very few exceptions) was
only appreciated by my fellow organizers. I have not heard any good
words from anybody else, a lot of bad words were coming from all kind
of corners, and nobody in 2011, 2012, 2013, or, for that matter, in
2014 ever contacted me asking whether I would have any interest to do
this job again. In 2011, someone duly revoked my Wikimania wiki
administrator flag saying smth like "not needed anymore", and nobody
cared to thank me or even to inform me of that. I obviously decided
afterwards that there are other, less painful ways I can be do my
community service, and lost all interest in Wikimania organization.
I would just like to point out that there's no Program Committee for
2014 as the jury decision on host haven't even been made yet, and for
2013 there were an open invitation for people to volunteer to serve on
the Programmes Commitee and Scholarship Committee -
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2012-October/004375.html>.
Yes, as a movement in general we need to get better at showing
apperication for others hard work, but let's not generalise.
Regards,
KTC
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