- In a big session on services-oriented architectures, a lot of time was
spent theorizing about what small wikis who do their hosting on shared-hosting services do, and whether various solutions we were proposing would make it easier or harder for these non-WMF users of mediawiki. *But none of these users were at the summit.* So no decisions could ultimately be made, as the necessary affected parties were not present.
I don't think that would change, regardless of what we do. Even if we have more users at the summit, its not going to be a representative sample of every type of user we have. I don't think its reasonable to assume that just because a usecase isn't represented at the summit that it doesn't exist. Anyone taking the time out of their day to travel all the way to a MediaWiki event, is probably a power user, and thus this will bias the representation of users at the summit.