Hi all, 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. Potential sponsors want to have an idea what they are throwing their money in so I need to provide them a schedule to give them a general idea. This schedule will not be binding - It will just be an unofficial general outline. So feel free to fill in slots at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EuroWikimania/Topics
Thanks White Cat
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.
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