[Wikimania-l] Comments

[Muhammad Abdul-Mageed]

Dear Moushira and all,

With reference to Moushira's note below, I believe that you and your team really did a wonderful job. Believe me, I have been to four other conferences this last year--2 of them were international--and, in my view, the Wikimania one was better than the four of them in terms of organization, among other things. I and other presenters were not even able to access the wireless network except rarely in one of these. So, good job, and I am sure that those Wikipedians who have seen the Pyramids, Sphinx, and temples in Luxor, etc. have very much enjoyed them. For me, it was a great venue where I met many people who are working on Arabic open source stuff, translation, etc. whom I could never have met elsewhere.

Cheers,

--Muhammad

>I just signed up to the list to drop a few lines to the long thread of
> emails entitled: Re:Comments :). I believe I do not have much to say after
> all that was said, I can just clarify few points, but first: Majorly, I am
> sorry to hear that your experience in the country that hosted Wikimania 2008
> was that harsh, and I wish you a pleasant experience in the future
> Wikimanias. I wish the team could have made it better to you by any means,
> but I am afraid we have no control over Egyptian culture! I am sorry. Hint:
> The families that you used to see near by BA premises; they do not live or
> reside there and they are not homeless. They are patients and patients
> families that make it early to the public hospital that is next doors to the
> library. They are mostly from country side, travel long miles to reach their
> early, and they are too many that mostly the hospital does not occupy them.
> A local debate has long been taking place on the relocation of the hospital,
> but after all they are patients, they are harmless, and this is mostly how
> things are in our side of the world..
>
> On Wi-Fi: I am sorry if anyone had problems with getting connected, this is
> mostly for the uneven distribution of users; the access point of B1 was
> mostly occupied, while the one on entrance level and the level before had
> room for plenty of IPs. Relocating could have helped..I am sorry if that was
> not made clear on site, and I apologize and am sorry if anyone suffered with
> getting connected.
>
> Effeietsanders: Press Conference video is available along with other
> sessions here<http://www.bibalex.org/isis/Frontend/archive/Archive_Movie.aspx>
>
> Wishing Patricio and his team all best of luck with Wikimania2009..
>
> Best Regards,
> Moushira
>

--
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed,
PhD Student
Dept. of Linguistics,
Indiana University, Bloomington,
USA
www.mumageed.blogspot.com





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