[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

[George Herbert]

On 10/10/07, Aude <audevivere at gmail.com> wrote:
> In this thread, I see people raising the issues regarding the Egyptian
> government.  As we know, it's not a democracy and the Egyptian people did
> not choose the government.  The government there is more repressive, but not
> so much so (like Burma) that we can't have Wikimania there.  To penalize
> Egyptian Wikimedians (and those from Jordan and other nearby places), for
> what their government does is not cool with me.

Exactly.  To penalize the Egyptian Wikipedians who put together a
wonderful proposal seems unreasonable.

These are the people we want to be supporting and encouraging.


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com