On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@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!
* Support. ~~~~
Thanks to the organizers for a great conference--I think it went very well! Wikimania always reminds me how awesome the people involved in this crazy thing are, in every role--smart and generous and dedicated and passionate, and of course at least a little bit weird. Thanks to everyone for coming together and making it a success.
-Kat