A big +1 to everything Srikanth mentioned.
From: srik.lak(a)gmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:56:14 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 - Announcement of Jury
and invitation to bid
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 13:39, Noopur <noopur.raval(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1 to Pranav's comment on lack of a local team. The main problem as I see in India
will be the distance and hence someone in Delhi can't really be of much help to
someone in Bombay.
While local team is one thing. There were still lot of things that people could have done
sitting elsewhere. Beria did some amazing work with keeping up the portal and posting
messages, she was not even in India. There were many others from many cities and few
countries who made this conference happen, in the sense it was not just "Mumbai
community" but some "location agnostic wikipedian community" that pulled
the event off together. The problem with WCI was both lack of local as well as online
volunteers and it was not like people weren't there. They were very much happy in
giving advice on the list(the archives can speak for itself). So when the emphasis on
"Strong local team" was made by Pranav, it must be read as having a large enough
community of "Do-ers" than "talkers" for the scale of event. I
strongly don't foresee the next edition of WCI happening in 2012, leave alone
Wikimania 2013.
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Regards
Srikanth.L
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