[Foundation-l] Hello world. Update from Berlin.

[Florence Devouard]

On 4/21/10 6:43 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> Dear world:  Help wanted.  Plz send a rowboat and a few paddles.

<mode throwing ideas in the basket>

Have you thought of setting up a travel in balloon such as Jean-Louis 
Etienne
http://www.jeanlouisetienne.com/generali_arctic_observer/en/
and asking sponsors to fund the whole thing ?

</mode throwing ideas in the basket>

>
> It’s no secret by now that a volcano in Iceland with an
> unpronounceable name decided to get cranky this week and stranded
> hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.
>
> With that out of the way, Did you know… that half the Wikimedia
> Foundation staff and a lot of volunteers who were in Berlin for the
> Wikimedia Developers and Chapters conferences (since renamed,
> collectively, “Ashcon”), were among those who were stuck?
>
> We’re making the best of it… we’ve got it better than a lot of
> people.  We’re in a very nice hotel in downtown Berlin, and we’ve got
> food and drink.  We’re missing our families and really want to be
> home, but the whole trip has a very “summer camp” feeling to it now.
> We’ve done laundry, and “the boys” (as Danese affectionately calls
> them) are whacking some Mediawiki bugs from our makeshift office in
> the lobby.  The kind people at Wikimedia-Germany have been wonderful
> hosts, arranging outings, giving tours of their office, and connecting
> us with local Wikimedians for sight-seeing tours.
>
> We’re getting pretty good at ordering curry-wurst, and we’ve found the
> local Ka-De-We department store (which Danese affectionately labeled
> “heaven”).  On the whole, we’re doing okay.  Some of us are even
> optimistic about making it home someday soon.  Others are practicing
> their German.  But Iceland, you’re on notice:  we’re holding a grudge.
>
> ____________________
>
> Philippe Beaudette	
> Facilitator, Strategy Project
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> philippe at wikimedia.org
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