Hi everyone,
as you know in a month there'll be the Wikisource Conference in Wien,
I hope many of you will participate.
The organizing team discussed with the WMF about the program and we came up with a very simple schedule. We wanted to have *very few goals*, so it's easier to achieve them.
* Friday for GLAMs/workshops/hackathon: Friday, as the first day, will be the warming up. Several people signed for making a presentation [1], or for hosting a workshop. We think it would be a good day for talking, learning, coding, whatever you feel like. Presentations are good for beginners, as are workshops. We feel that as a small community we can auto-organize and not be facilitated that day.
There is the possibility of visiting an archive in Wien, but that would be just after lunch and would break the sessions.
We can think of making the trip a fringe event on Thursday afternoon for those who arrive early... What do you think? We would really like to know your opinion on this.
Many people could be "intimidated" by a discussion like this :-), and so there would be the possibility of having a parallel session on the relationship between Wikisource and Wikidata, that is the important issue to tackle.
Both these sessions would be wrapped up on Sunday morning.
Again, we would like your feedback on this: as you see, the conference is pretty simple, having few (but big!) topics, and we have few goals but we must succeed in achieving them. The very conference is a pilot, and if we fail we may not be given another chance.
Please tell us what you think.
Aubrey