So maybe we need two events?
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From: Aphaia <aphaia(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A question for the Wikimania jury
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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Jason Safoutin wrote:
Really we can do without the attacks of being
"NATO-centric" Its not
about that. Its about who can attend. And maybe if WM was in areas that
people would be able to attend, people would go...at least more than
from what I hear, 25% of the people not affiliated with WMF.
That figure was quoted for Boston -- the "most accessible" location yet
for Americans. (Including, naturally enough, interested Americans who
aren't part of our community, but are curious about it.)
Yes it was taken from Boston ... and in Boston we criticized the
outsider ("mericans who
aren't part of our community, but are curious
about it.") overwhelmed the conf and turned it into not community event. On the other
hand, I got (not complaints!) friendly denial to attend from our fellow US Wikimedians,
since they couldn't afford travel or just had no interest (one of them was in Boston
but Wikimania was no interest for him).
Having a conf in the largest user base per se doesn't make it a
community event, our experience says.
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