Thank you very much, Isarra, for the vote of confidence. But the more I look into it, the
more I see I've got too much going on to make it work for me to go this year.
In turn, I want to give a vote of confidence to Abhay. The main challenge that Wikimedia
faces is meeting a hugely
diverse, worldwide demand for information. I think Abhay, who has made huge contributions
to some of the many Wikipedias relevant to India, has more experience and sense for how to
meet that challenge than most of us in Colorado.
He also was almost solely responsible for getting a significant grant for Colorado from
the Wikimedia Foundation, to pay expenses for our very successful last event in Boulder.
Given the widespread continuing uncertainty about deadlines, I'm very glad he applied
to ensure that the team would have a delegate. But I'm glad to hear that they may not
be as strict about it as they suggest.
I think Abhay will do a fine job of representing us, and look forward to us all doing a
better job of following up on what he brings back from the summit.
Cheers,
-Neal
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 08:00:52PM +0000, Isarra Yos wrote:
Whatever the case, Neal, could you please add yourself
to the page onwiki so we can all weigh in officially, one way or the other?
Whoever we send could probably use some kind of demonstrable consensus at this point.
-I
On 16/12/2019 19:49, Isarra Yos wrote:
I think I would really prefer we send Neal. I don't feel comfortable with someone
representing the group who would put us in
the position to potentially have to deregister them when we have clear precedent from
previous years that the ambiguous
deadline does allow people to register later. (It would also be very strange if they
did decide to enforce it more strictly
this year, as it would also impact quite a few other groups for no good reason.) This
on top of your tendency to start things,
or say you will do things, and then fail to follow through on them, which was why I
changed my mind about being considered
myself, just seems like too much too me.
Bear in mind Neal makes a lot of sense as a representative to send regardless - even
if it hadn't been awhile since we've sent
him, he's been a consistently active fixture in our local community with a long
history of organising and assisting with events
even before the group was formally created, and has been one of the main people not
just encouraging others, but also doing
things himself, writing the actual body for our reports, setting things up, following
through to the end.
-I
On 16/12/2019 15:02, Abhay Natu wrote:
I am ok with someone more deserving going. Let me know when and how to
deregister, once they have registered.
Abhay
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:57:17 -0700
From: Neal McBurnett <neal(a)bcn.boulder.co.us>
Thank you, Abhay, for entering your candidate info, and for registering, in
case the deadline was today.
Sorry I wasn't back at my email until just now.
I still don't know what the deadline is. I and others have asked
Cornelius, but haven't heard back.
I visited the registration page just now, and it is still functioning, so
either the
deadline is tomorrow, or they're accepting late registrations, or
they're misleading us....
I'm fine with either Abhay or Isarra representing us. And I still have
interest in going
myself, but I can defer to folks who are more engaged....
Perhaps we can wait to hear more about the deadline, and whether anyone else
is out-of-the-loop
but interested.
Neal McBurnett
http://neal.mcburnett.org/