Thanks Gaurav and Neil! You guys are basically why we still have a group - I was planning to send out an email or something earlier but then got swamped in travel, and went offline for a few days in the Oregon hills, so... yeah. You made it actually happen, which is kind of really important.

I notice nobody's added themselves yet. I recommend Neil or anyone who actually likes weird meta conferences, discussing strategy, and being a bit baffled by all the overly process-y process. Process for the sake of process, if anything. Quite entertaining if you either take it seriously and enjoy that sort of thing, or don't take it at all seriously and enjoy that sort of thing.

As the latter, I had a lot of fun with it last time (I think), but I probably shouldn't go two years in a row because that would be a bit weird and I wasn't even in-state most of the year this year anyway and missed most of the events (or at least one of them) and I'm not sure they'd want me there anyway after what I might have done last time on account of all the cold medicine. I don't actually know what I did. I basically got like four hours of sleep the entire week up to it, spent the whole thing completely zonked out still unable to sleep because my stupid cold just Would Not Let Me, and then... I don't know! Good times. I think.

So yeah. We gotta get on this! Deadline might be in just a few hours.

Go go go! Or we can just decide over email, but we gotta do something. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmsummit-2020/candidates

-I

On 14/12/2019 01:58, Neal McBurnett wrote:

Step up folks! This could be your chance to really dive deep into the Wikimedia movement, and hang out with some of the coolest people on the planet!

Though I'm disappointed that despite my feedback in the past, they are still using the somewhat ambiguous designation "Dec 16 Midnight CET", since our own Wikipedia notes the lack of clear definition:

Though there is no global unanimity on the issue, most often midnight is considered the start of a new day and is associated with the hour 00:00

Thus the worst case (and most likely) scanario is that that means 2019-12-15T23:00 (23:00 or 11 PM on the 15th, UTC, which is 16:00 MST on Sunday the 15th.

Let me know if I once again have made a miscalculation....

Of course it could mean midnight as the end of the day, which has always seemed more natural to me, but I doubt it.


As for who goes, here are a few helpful links re our process in previous years:

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmsummit-2019/candidates
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-2017/candidates

And we need to leave some time to register, which does take time, and requires answering some thought-provoking questions.

So as in the past, I hope people who put themselves forward can provide at least initial answers to the registration questions on that web page when they put themselves forward.

I've set up a candidate page here with a template for candidates to fill out:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmsummit-2020/candidates

Please fill it out by the end of the day AoE on Saturday (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe)
so we can evaluate and make a selection on Sunday.

Don't be shy!

-Neal

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:46:07AM -0800, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

We are eligible! Who wants to go?

Cheers,
Gaurav


    Begin forwarded message:

    From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com>
    Subject: [Wikimediaus-l] Deadline this weekend: Register for Wikimedia Summit in Berlin
    Date: Friday, December 13, 2019 at 11:43:37 AM PST
    To: "Wikimedia U.S. Chapter" <wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
    Reply-To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States \(WALRUS\)" <wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
   
    If your usergroup is eligible, please apply, deadline is this weekend, and they will not accept late registrations:

    https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Eligibility_Criteria 

    Information on how to register for the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin on April 3-5:

    https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Registration_Information 

    You have to do it this weekend!

    Thanks,
    Richard
    (User:Pharos)
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