[Foundation-l] Why should Wikimedians meet?

[Florence Devouard]

On 7/31/10 5:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> I am thinking about making Wikimania 2011 as awesome as possible and
> here's a little something that bothered me.
>
> Wikimania 2010 was my first. It was a lot of fun to meet Wikimedians
> from around the world. I also think that a lot of new ideas were born
> thanks to the personal meetings in Gdansk, at least some of which may
> grow to successful projects. Maybe it will be smarter use of machine
> translation, maybe outreach to underprivileged languages, maybe
> accessibility improvements. Maybe other things.
>
> But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
> proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal
> meetings between Wikimedians are not just fun for them, but actually
> beneficial to the Wikimedia community, the Internet, the Humanity? Can
> anyone here give me solid examples of successful projects that were
> born thanks to past Wikimanias?

Children...

I know that for a fact :)
Delphine met Arne whilst going to Germany to prepare first Wikimania 
ever. Look now: two children. Our future :)

Ant