The mania of my dreams has voice-montages from the public speeches of various wikimedians to announce the end of sessions / meals / coffee-times. A 90-min panel on article quality with John Seigenthaler, Ryan Jordan, Larry Sanger and Mathias Schindler, moderated by Lord Emsworth. And various covers of the chipmunk-voiced wiki-section of "Jam On It" as musical theme.
my dreams are troubled dreams.
SJ
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Mohamed Sanad mohameds.sanad@gmail.comwrote:
I wanna add one more point:
- It would have someone who can drive really fast like crazy to handle the
"needed right now" stuff and urgent situations :)
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.comwrote:
I woudl like to dedicate this thread to the Wikimania of your dreams.
No argument, no debate, just ideas, a giant brainstorming of what the Wikimania of your dreams would be. Please throw your stuff in, and try to make it only positive things (ie.write "something that's green" rather than "something that's not blue or red".)
here is the Wikimania of my dreams:
-It would be in a city easy to reach, with a big airport and cheap flights incoming because it's a huge hub, or it would be next door (Frankfurt airport ;-) )
- It would be in a top-notch conference facility, with tons of plugs
everywhere, air conditionned if needed, modular conference rooms, all in one place and close to the accommodation building (a mix of Cambridge, Alexandria for the conference facility, Taipei and Frankfurt for access).
- It would have a great outdoor and indoor community area, with wifi
that works all the time, with comfy couches as well as ground mats for the yoga-types, with coffee, cookies, juices and fresh water available at all times. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei)
- It would have all the accommodation in one place, close to the
conference grounds, or even actually _on_ the conference grounds, and it would be cheap but practical, clean and modern accommodation, with different possibilities - share a room, not share a room, share a dorm etc. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei) -It would have an amazing range of food for lunches, which would be served in a big room where annoucements and meetings can take place (a mix of Taipei and Cambridge).
- It would take place in a really "wow" place so that we get speakers
to *want to come* to speak (Harvard or Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
- It would be close to sightseeing stuff for social evenings as
"discovery trips".
- It would have an amazing party location and an amazing party with
dancers with rotating hat-thingies (just like Alexandria!)
- It would host up to 500 people, not more, so I can get to meet
almost all of them. :-)
- And finally, to steal Sj's idea, it would have a giant rotating
Wikipedia globe that people could get into and make roll around like a hamster wheel, just for the fun of it.
Cheers,
Delphine
-- ~notafish
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* involves some techy subjects that talk about what's new and exciting, rather then project managment around them * water if it's hot, thee/coffee if it's cold * lot's of breakout spaces to sit&talk all hours of the night and day * brainstorming sessions to get people involved rather then just watching a presentation * new topics/presenters * easy get involved/get to know people
Finne/henna
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
The mania of my dreams has voice-montages from the public speeches of various wikimedians to announce the end of sessions / meals / coffee-times. A 90-min panel on article quality with John Seigenthaler, Ryan Jordan, Larry Sanger and Mathias Schindler, moderated by Lord Emsworth. And various covers of the chipmunk-voiced wiki-section of "Jam On It" as musical theme.
my dreams are troubled dreams.
SJ
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Mohamed Sanad mohameds.sanad@gmail.comwrote:
I wanna add one more point:
- It would have someone who can drive really fast like crazy to handle the
"needed right now" stuff and urgent situations :)
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.comwrote:
I woudl like to dedicate this thread to the Wikimania of your dreams.
No argument, no debate, just ideas, a giant brainstorming of what the Wikimania of your dreams would be. Please throw your stuff in, and try to make it only positive things (ie.write "something that's green" rather than "something that's not blue or red".)
here is the Wikimania of my dreams:
-It would be in a city easy to reach, with a big airport and cheap flights incoming because it's a huge hub, or it would be next door (Frankfurt airport ;-) )
- It would be in a top-notch conference facility, with tons of plugs
everywhere, air conditionned if needed, modular conference rooms, all in one place and close to the accommodation building (a mix of Cambridge, Alexandria for the conference facility, Taipei and Frankfurt for access).
- It would have a great outdoor and indoor community area, with wifi
that works all the time, with comfy couches as well as ground mats for the yoga-types, with coffee, cookies, juices and fresh water available at all times. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei)
- It would have all the accommodation in one place, close to the
conference grounds, or even actually _on_ the conference grounds, and it would be cheap but practical, clean and modern accommodation, with different possibilities - share a room, not share a room, share a dorm etc. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei) -It would have an amazing range of food for lunches, which would be served in a big room where annoucements and meetings can take place (a mix of Taipei and Cambridge).
- It would take place in a really "wow" place so that we get speakers
to *want to come* to speak (Harvard or Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
- It would be close to sightseeing stuff for social evenings as
"discovery trips".
- It would have an amazing party location and an amazing party with
dancers with rotating hat-thingies (just like Alexandria!)
- It would host up to 500 people, not more, so I can get to meet
almost all of them. :-)
- And finally, to steal Sj's idea, it would have a giant rotating
Wikipedia globe that people could get into and make roll around like a hamster wheel, just for the fun of it.
Cheers,
Delphine
-- ~notafish
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* involves some techy subjects that talk about what's new and exciting, rather then project managment around them * water if it's hot, thee/coffee if it's cold * lot's of breakout spaces to sit&talk all hours of the night and day * brainstorming sessions to get people involved rather then just watching a presentation * new topics/presenters * easy get involved/get to know people
Finne/henna
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
The mania of my dreams has voice-montages from the public speeches of various wikimedians to announce the end of sessions / meals / coffee-times. A 90-min panel on article quality with John Seigenthaler, Ryan Jordan, Larry Sanger and Mathias Schindler, moderated by Lord Emsworth. And various covers of the chipmunk-voiced wiki-section of
"Jam On
It" as musical theme.
my dreams are troubled dreams.
SJ
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Mohamed Sanad
mohameds.sanad@gmail.comwrote:
I wanna add one more point:
- It would have someone who can drive really fast like crazy to handle
the
"needed right now" stuff and urgent situations :)
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Delphine Ménard
notafishz@gmail.comwrote:
I woudl like to dedicate this thread to the Wikimania of your
dreams.
No argument, no debate, just ideas, a giant brainstorming of what
the
Wikimania of your dreams would be. Please throw your stuff in, and
try
to make it only positive things (ie.write "something
that's green"
rather than "something that's not blue or red".)
here is the Wikimania of my dreams:
-It would be in a city easy to reach, with a big airport and cheap flights incoming because it's a huge hub, or it would be next
door
(Frankfurt airport ;-) )
- It would be in a top-notch conference facility, with tons of
plugs
everywhere, air conditionned if needed, modular conference rooms,
all
in one place and close to the accommodation building (a mix of Cambridge, Alexandria for the conference facility, Taipei and Frankfurt for access).
- It would have a great outdoor and indoor community area, with
wifi
that works all the time, with comfy couches as well as ground mats
for
the yoga-types, with coffee, cookies, juices and fresh water
available
at all times. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei)
- It would have all the accommodation in one place, close to the
conference grounds, or even actually _on_ the conference grounds,
and
it would be cheap but practical, clean and modern accommodation,
with
different possibilities - share a room, not share a room, share a
dorm
etc. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei) -It would have an amazing range of food for lunches, which would
be
served in a big room where annoucements and meetings can take
place (a
mix of Taipei and Cambridge).
- It would take place in a really "wow" place so that we
get speakers
to *want to come* to speak (Harvard or Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
- It would be close to sightseeing stuff for social evenings as
"discovery trips".
- It would have an amazing party location and an amazing party
with
dancers with rotating hat-thingies (just like Alexandria!)
- It would host up to 500 people, not more, so I can get to meet
almost all of them. :-)
- And finally, to steal Sj's idea, it would have a giant
rotating
Wikipedia globe that people could get into and make roll around
like a
hamster wheel, just for the fun of it.
Cheers,
Delphine
-- ~notafish
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A 100% free software Wikimania.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Mary Murrell mary_murrell@yahoo.comwrote:
Wikiawards to recognize outstanding members of the community
--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Finne Boonen hennar@gmail.com wrote: From: Finne Boonen hennar@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] The Wikimania of my dreams To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 7:15 AM
- involves some techy subjects that talk about what's new and
exciting, rather then project managment around them
- water if it's hot, thee/coffee if it's cold
- lot's of breakout spaces to sit&talk all hours of the night and day
- brainstorming sessions to get people involved rather then just
watching a presentation
- new topics/presenters
- easy get involved/get to know people
Finne/henna
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
The mania of my dreams has voice-montages from the public speeches of various wikimedians to announce the end of sessions / meals / coffee-times. A 90-min panel on article quality with John
Seigenthaler,
Ryan Jordan, Larry Sanger and Mathias Schindler, moderated by Lord Emsworth. And various covers of the chipmunk-voiced wiki-section of
"Jam On
It" as musical theme.
my dreams are troubled dreams.
SJ
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Mohamed Sanad
mohameds.sanad@gmail.comwrote:
I wanna add one more point:
- It would have someone who can drive really fast like crazy to handle
the
"needed right now" stuff and urgent situations :)
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Delphine Ménard
notafishz@gmail.comwrote:
I woudl like to dedicate this thread to the Wikimania of your
dreams.
No argument, no debate, just ideas, a giant brainstorming of what
the
Wikimania of your dreams would be. Please throw your stuff in, and
try
to make it only positive things (ie.write "something
that's green"
rather than "something that's not blue or red".)
here is the Wikimania of my dreams:
-It would be in a city easy to reach, with a big airport and cheap flights incoming because it's a huge hub, or it would be next
door
(Frankfurt airport ;-) )
- It would be in a top-notch conference facility, with tons of
plugs
everywhere, air conditionned if needed, modular conference rooms,
all
in one place and close to the accommodation building (a mix of Cambridge, Alexandria for the conference facility, Taipei and Frankfurt for access).
- It would have a great outdoor and indoor community area, with
wifi
that works all the time, with comfy couches as well as ground mats
for
the yoga-types, with coffee, cookies, juices and fresh water
available
at all times. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei)
- It would have all the accommodation in one place, close to the
conference grounds, or even actually _on_ the conference grounds,
and
it would be cheap but practical, clean and modern accommodation,
with
different possibilities - share a room, not share a room, share a
dorm
etc. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei) -It would have an amazing range of food for lunches, which would
be
served in a big room where annoucements and meetings can take
place (a
mix of Taipei and Cambridge).
- It would take place in a really "wow" place so that we
get speakers
to *want to come* to speak (Harvard or Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
- It would be close to sightseeing stuff for social evenings as
"discovery trips".
- It would have an amazing party location and an amazing party
with
dancers with rotating hat-thingies (just like Alexandria!)
- It would host up to 500 people, not more, so I can get to meet
almost all of them. :-)
- And finally, to steal Sj's idea, it would have a giant
rotating
Wikipedia globe that people could get into and make roll around
like a
hamster wheel, just for the fun of it.
Cheers,
Delphine
-- ~notafish
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Oh, and since I'm dreaming, a Wikimania without ads.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
A 100% free software Wikimania.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Mary Murrell mary_murrell@yahoo.comwrote:
Wikiawards to recognize outstanding members of the community
--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Finne Boonen hennar@gmail.com wrote: From: Finne Boonen hennar@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] The Wikimania of my dreams To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 7:15 AM
- involves some techy subjects that talk about what's new and
exciting, rather then project managment around them
- water if it's hot, thee/coffee if it's cold
- lot's of breakout spaces to sit&talk all hours of the night and day
- brainstorming sessions to get people involved rather then just
watching a presentation
- new topics/presenters
- easy get involved/get to know people
Finne/henna
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
The mania of my dreams has voice-montages from the public speeches of various wikimedians to announce the end of sessions / meals / coffee-times. A 90-min panel on article quality with John
Seigenthaler,
Ryan Jordan, Larry Sanger and Mathias Schindler, moderated by Lord Emsworth. And various covers of the chipmunk-voiced wiki-section of
"Jam On
It" as musical theme.
my dreams are troubled dreams.
SJ
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Mohamed Sanad
mohameds.sanad@gmail.comwrote:
I wanna add one more point:
- It would have someone who can drive really fast like crazy to handle
the
"needed right now" stuff and urgent situations :)
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Delphine Ménard
notafishz@gmail.comwrote:
I woudl like to dedicate this thread to the Wikimania of your
dreams.
No argument, no debate, just ideas, a giant brainstorming of what
the
Wikimania of your dreams would be. Please throw your stuff in, and
try
to make it only positive things (ie.write "something
that's green"
rather than "something that's not blue or red".)
here is the Wikimania of my dreams:
-It would be in a city easy to reach, with a big airport and cheap flights incoming because it's a huge hub, or it would be next
door
(Frankfurt airport ;-) )
- It would be in a top-notch conference facility, with tons of
plugs
everywhere, air conditionned if needed, modular conference rooms,
all
in one place and close to the accommodation building (a mix of Cambridge, Alexandria for the conference facility, Taipei and Frankfurt for access).
- It would have a great outdoor and indoor community area, with
wifi
that works all the time, with comfy couches as well as ground mats
for
the yoga-types, with coffee, cookies, juices and fresh water
available
at all times. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei)
- It would have all the accommodation in one place, close to the
conference grounds, or even actually _on_ the conference grounds,
and
it would be cheap but practical, clean and modern accommodation,
with
different possibilities - share a room, not share a room, share a
dorm
etc. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei) -It would have an amazing range of food for lunches, which would
be
served in a big room where annoucements and meetings can take
place (a
mix of Taipei and Cambridge).
- It would take place in a really "wow" place so that we
get speakers
to *want to come* to speak (Harvard or Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
- It would be close to sightseeing stuff for social evenings as
"discovery trips".
- It would have an amazing party location and an amazing party
with
dancers with rotating hat-thingies (just like Alexandria!)
- It would host up to 500 people, not more, so I can get to meet
almost all of them. :-)
- And finally, to steal Sj's idea, it would have a giant
rotating
Wikipedia globe that people could get into and make roll around
like a
hamster wheel, just for the fun of it.
Cheers,
Delphine
-- ~notafish
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get
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What non-free software does Wikimania have/use/involve? As for ads -- do you also mean without "thanks to our sponsors" logos?
qwikly, SJ
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
Oh, and since I'm dreaming, a Wikimania without ads.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
A 100% free software Wikimania.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Mary Murrell <mary_murrell@yahoo.com wrote:
Wikiawards to recognize outstanding members of the community
--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Finne Boonen hennar@gmail.com wrote: From: Finne Boonen hennar@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] The Wikimania of my dreams To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 7:15 AM
- involves some techy subjects that talk about what's new and
exciting, rather then project managment around them
- water if it's hot, thee/coffee if it's cold
- lot's of breakout spaces to sit&talk all hours of the night and day
- brainstorming sessions to get people involved rather then just
watching a presentation
- new topics/presenters
- easy get involved/get to know people
Finne/henna
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com
wrote:
The mania of my dreams has voice-montages from the public speeches of various wikimedians to announce the end of sessions / meals / coffee-times. A 90-min panel on article quality with John
Seigenthaler,
Ryan Jordan, Larry Sanger and Mathias Schindler, moderated by Lord Emsworth. And various covers of the chipmunk-voiced wiki-section of
"Jam On
It" as musical theme.
my dreams are troubled dreams.
SJ
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Mohamed Sanad
mohameds.sanad@gmail.comwrote:
I wanna add one more point:
- It would have someone who can drive really fast like crazy to
handle
the
"needed right now" stuff and urgent situations :)
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Delphine Ménard
notafishz@gmail.comwrote:
I woudl like to dedicate this thread to the Wikimania of your
dreams.
No argument, no debate, just ideas, a giant brainstorming of what
the
Wikimania of your dreams would be. Please throw your stuff in, and
try
to make it only positive things (ie.write "something
that's green"
rather than "something that's not blue or red".)
here is the Wikimania of my dreams:
-It would be in a city easy to reach, with a big airport and cheap flights incoming because it's a huge hub, or it would be next
door
(Frankfurt airport ;-) )
- It would be in a top-notch conference facility, with tons of
plugs
everywhere, air conditionned if needed, modular conference rooms,
all
in one place and close to the accommodation building (a mix of Cambridge, Alexandria for the conference facility, Taipei and Frankfurt for access).
- It would have a great outdoor and indoor community area, with
wifi
that works all the time, with comfy couches as well as ground mats
for
the yoga-types, with coffee, cookies, juices and fresh water
available
at all times. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei)
- It would have all the accommodation in one place, close to the
conference grounds, or even actually _on_ the conference grounds,
and
it would be cheap but practical, clean and modern accommodation,
with
different possibilities - share a room, not share a room, share a
dorm
etc. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei) -It would have an amazing range of food for lunches, which would
be
served in a big room where annoucements and meetings can take
place (a
mix of Taipei and Cambridge).
- It would take place in a really "wow" place so that we
get speakers
to *want to come* to speak (Harvard or Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
- It would be close to sightseeing stuff for social evenings as
"discovery trips".
- It would have an amazing party location and an amazing party
with
dancers with rotating hat-thingies (just like Alexandria!)
- It would host up to 500 people, not more, so I can get to meet
almost all of them. :-)
- And finally, to steal Sj's idea, it would have a giant
rotating
Wikipedia globe that people could get into and make roll around
like a
hamster wheel, just for the fun of it.
Cheers,
Delphine
-- ~notafish
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get
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
Oh, and since I'm dreaming, a Wikimania without ads.
Actually, this is only part of my wildest dreams in which not a single boundary of reality applies. If I had to choose between a compromise in any other quality of a conference (food support, venue, entrance fee, travel scholarship and documentation) and an ad-free environment, I would accept the ads.
On the contrary, I saw many white spaces at the last conferences, which could have been used to generate income, which in turn would have helped to support the conference.
Mathias
Wikimania of my dreams:
Location: Reykjavik (surprisingly cheap airfare from both SF, Washington/BWI, and Orlando/Sanford!). Alternatively, Nuremberg (one of my parents was born and grew up there but I've never been, and I hear the castles are spectacular. Also, isn't there a really big auto racing ring nearby). Transportation: Each participant who verifies themselves to the foundation as a sysop on any Wikimedia project, gets their conference entrance fee waived. All Foundation employees and board members must be required to ride Segway scooters the entire time they are at the project. Food: There must be sushi, bbq, fish and chips, GOOD pizza, doner, and thai on site. Everything else we can go out for.
Ok, that covers where it is, how to get there, and what I'm eating. Yep that's about the most important things. Everything else is flexible.
-Dan
Mathias Schindler wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
Oh, and since I'm dreaming, a Wikimania without ads.
Actually, this is only part of my wildest dreams in which not a single boundary of reality applies. If I had to choose between a compromise in any other quality of a conference (food support, venue, entrance fee, travel scholarship and documentation) and an ad-free environment, I would accept the ads.
On the contrary, I saw many white spaces at the last conferences, which could have been used to generate income, which in turn would have helped to support the conference.
Mathias
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
Wikimania of my dreams:
Transportation: Each participant who verifies themselves to the foundation as a sysop on any Wikimedia project, gets their conference entrance fee waived. All Foundation employees and board members must be required to ride Segway scooters the entire time they are at the project.
And as usual, bureaucrats, checkusers, and stewards will also be paid a small attendance bonus, in addition to their annual salaries.
--Andrew Whitworth
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
Wikimania of my dreams:
Transportation: Each participant who verifies themselves to the foundation as a sysop on any Wikimedia project, gets their conference entrance fee waived. All Foundation employees and board members must be required to ride Segway scooters the entire time they are at the project.
And as usual, bureaucrats, checkusers, and stewards will also be paid a small attendance bonus, in addition to their annual salaries.
You don't even have to dream for that part. And Oversights and Developers, in addition to their travel stipend, get an extra security clearance and back-stage pass for a guest (presumably, whoever they currently let watch over their shoulder while oversighting things or manually updating the databases).
And on a ligher note, +1 to Renata for the need for a Wikipedia-focused conference -- one of the miniconfs that WMania can spawn.
SJ
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