[Foundation-l] Volunteer Council - A shot for a resolution

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Well actually they are not. They are into governing the Wikimedia
Foundation, into representing Wikimedia Foundation projects. They may be
according to the numbers given some 500 people while Wikimania is happy to
host some 300.

As to Wikimania, I have been lucky to have been to all of them so far.
Therefore I have been part of what Wikimania is and has been so far. When
you ignore for a second the extend to which Wikimania has been the place
where many of the new thing developments have been introduced and explained,
you ignore its essence. With an overwhelming attendance of the policy wonks
would there be room for the newness, the innovation or would it become that
much more navel staring?
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

> You hope to get 300/400 people who are really involved in Wikis, at a
> Wiki event, but you don't want them to get involved with something
> policy related regarding the Wikimedia Foundation, because that will
> cease to make it the cutting edge of wikidom?
>
> Uh.....what? Ignoring for a second how a policy meeting doesn't have
> anything to do with cutting edge or not, I'm really curious how you
> think that an event that you say is targeted at people really into
> Wikis should not be the site of a meeting of a group of people who
> are....really into wikis.
>
> You have your personal view of what Wikimania should be. And so do
> others. There is no "as we know it" but rather "as you know it".
> "We", all have differing interpretations of what Wikimania should be
> (many of which probably do not coincide with yours.)
>
> -Dan
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 1:53 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > Wikimania is an event where we hope to get something like 300/400
> > people who
> > are really involved in Wikis to come together for the biggest Wiki
> > event in
> > the world. It is an event that has proved itself important for the
> > outreach
> > of the things we do locally. When you  weight it down with all the
> > policy
> > tigers that represent something in the Wikimedia Foundation, there
> > is no
> > longer the Wikimania as we know it. It will become a sad reflection
> > of what
> > once was the state of the art, the cutting edge of wikidom.
> >
> > Please let Wikimania be its own thing and PLEASE do not burden it
> > with what
> > should not even be a side show to the event.
> > Thanks,
> >     GerardM
> >
> >
> >
> >> When I was thinking about a large body, I was thinking about a
> >> virtual
> >> body. Maybe, some day in the future, when WMF would be able to pay
> >> trips for the whole body annually, it would be able to meet
> >> somewhere,
> >> possibly during Wikimania.
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