[Wikimania-l] thank you

[Thomas Dalton]

Hear, hear!

On 13 July 2010 16:33, Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org> wrote:
> Dear organizers (hopefully someone can forward it to those not on this list)
>
> thank you so much for putting the time and dedication into this years
> wikimania. Organizing a conference of this size with attendees who have such
> high demands and expectations is as always hard, and I think it deserves an
> applause no matter whether some things did not go as planned.
> It was a very difficult organizing this year, the bumps in the road were
> numerous and I would like to explicitely thank all those volunteers who were
> not a part of the bidding team but stepped in when their help was most
> needed. Several people who live outside Poland suddenly lived for a few
> weeks in an appartment in Gdansk together - leaving their lives for what
> they were - and had to make horrible long hours to make the conference to
> what it has become. I have deep appreciation for those people and I think it
> is quite unique and wonderful to have such a volunteer base to fall back
> onto.
> But also "the people we did not see" did a tremendous amount of work in the
> past weeks. I remember that I slipped a few days before the conference that
> it would be nice to have X in the attendee packages, and the next day they
> were suddenly arranged!
> I dont dare to call out the specific people, being afraid of missing several
> - I have only seen so much of it. I do hope to have the opportunity of
> seeing many of you irl again soon!
>
> many hugs,
>
> Lodewijk
>
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