Hello Gerard, I believe the topic of capping costs is a reasonable one because, simply put, there are not unlimited resources within the movement. Some of us have the financial wherewithal to attend "on our own dime", but many of our colleagues from around the world are not in that position.
Your point about sharing lessons is important. It would be good to put significant focus on how to share lessons in ways that are significantly less expensive and have the opportunity to reach a broader audience. Wikimania, for all its good points, isn't necessarily the best way to share a lot of these lessons. It's very expensive for everyone, there's very limited evidence that many of those lessons have been effectively utilized by other similar groups, and the presentations and lessons may not hit the most logical target audiences.
I've not expressed a particular opinion about any of the proposed "Wikimania solutions" but I do believe that there is a real place for more focused, specialized conferences such as Hackathons, Wikisource conference and the CEE conference. I also believe we have to work harder at capturing lessons and sharing them in a more permanent way, such as the "learnings" that many groups have created and shared with the assistance of Community Engagement. I'm sure we can think of more ways to share information that doesn't involve people having to fly half-way around the world and spend thousands of dollars.
Risker/Anne
On 9 February 2016 at 10:40, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, When you cap Wikimania, who is not to come? Who is not relevant enough. We are a big movement and there is a reason for that. You care about health, what about mental health? How do you learn the lessons from the Malayalam source movement. There is more than we can do and you talk about capping funding.. WHY Thanks, GerardM
On 9 February 2016 at 16:25, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Yes I am also not a big fan of moving Wikimania to every two years.
Meeting
once a year on a global scale is important. I could see possibly keeping
it
smaller / capping funding.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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