[Foundation-l] Concern for the safety of Wikimedians atWikimania in Alex...

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 22:28:15 UTC 2008


Well, who knows if those limits are going to continue now that Raul is  
in power instead of Fidel. Personally I wouldn't mind a Wikimania  
Havana.

-Dan
On Mar 5, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:

> Pshaw, I'm in for Cuba.  Pesky travel/embargo limits be damned!
>
> Note to the surely monitoring US Gov't: I've never been to Cuba.  I  
> would
> love to go to Cuba.  But I've never been.  Please don't tap my phone.
>
> Philippe
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "geni" <geniice at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:18 PM
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org 
> >
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Concern for the safety of Wikimedians
> atWikimania in Alex...
>
>> On 05/03/2008, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I know you would, Gerard, that has become abundantly clear from the
>>> discussion. I personally wouldn't mind going to Eritrea or Cuba  
>>> for a
>>> trip, but I don't think it is wise, if even possible, to hold a
>>> conference in either location.
>>>
>>> Somehow, I do not see a Wikimania Asmera for at least 10 years,  
>>> nor a
>>> Wikimania Havana.
>>
>>
>> Ten year target would be Port Moresby. If that doesn't get us a  
>> decent
>> number of interface translations nothing will. 820 languages and
>> assuming you don't do something silly like try and introduce  
>> wikipedia
>> to an uncontacted people fairly safe (last major conflicted ended
>> 1997).
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> geni
>>
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