[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 date & first IRC public meeting

[SJ Klein]

It would be nice if a rotation scheme were adopted as a standard for 
ongoing international meetings... also style guidelines for how to
publish and translate minutes.

For a brief time it seemed that a universal collection of minutes and 
meeting-reports might gather on meta; that would at least be a fine place
to keep these kinds of rules of thumb for avoiding this type of debate
every time an international group gets together to plan something over a 
number of sessions.

--SJ, missing regular public meetings


On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Florence Devouard wrote:

> Well, I happen to disagree.
> We already held 3 wikimanias, and I think a big part of their success
> was because it was organized by wikipedians from every part of the
> planet. Of course, there was always more local people involved, but
> there was not ONLY local people;
> When it comes to the very practical organization (such as accomodations,
> decoration of the rooms and other renting of microphone, it is cleaer
> the local team will be first on the front and it makes sense to choose
> meeting times which primarily fit with their schedule.
>
> However, when it comes to stuff like program, international involvement
> is expected and priority should be given to accomodating as many of
> people as possible. If that involves making smaller action groups or
> rotating hours of meetings, so be it. We will never be able to satisfy
> everyone. But we can make efforts.
>
>
> Ant
>
>  Smart Robots wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Since Egypt is the country which will hold the wikimania for 2008 so I
>> think it's so wisely from Mido to adjust the time according to egypt
>> timing as the volunteers ( that will organize it ) can easily be founded
>> , I know these meetings have participations from all over the world.
>>
>> No offense
>> And this is not official I am just a subscriber !!
>>
>> */Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>     Corr.
>>
>>     for me 5am, for Titan (and KJ) 4am.
>>     While I know some people like this hour (e.g. Board election debate,
>>     ComProj meetings), I am worried this tendency to hold Wikimedia
>>     relation around 18-20 UTC, moreover to say it "hour good for everyone"
>>     (while Mido didn't call it so wisely). Simply there is no such hour
>>     which is good for everyone.
>>
>>     Again, time rotation is the best solution in my opinion.
>>
>>     On Dec 10, 2007 11:42 AM, Aphaia wrote:
>>     > On Dec 10, 2007 11:22 AM, E wrote:
>>     >> Exactly, it's 4am here in Australia... possibly 20:00UTC would be
>>     >> preferable.
>>     >
>>     > Not really: 20UTC is for me 4am.
>>     >>
>>     >> - E
>>     >>
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