[Wikimania-l] Thank you Wikimedia Israel!

[James Hare]

Washington is about as hot as Haifa but *more* humid.

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On Aug 8, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM, KIZU Naoko <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> +1
>> 
> +1 indeed. Wikimania 2011 was an awesome conference. Everything the
> organizers could control came close to perfection; they did a great
> job. The only thing you guys couldn't do was avoid the Wikimania Heat
> Curse, but that's hardly your fault :)
> 
> In particular, the high-profile Israeli speakers you attracted were
> great. I forget their names, but the talks from Prof. Benkler (sp? I
> mean the Harvard prof) and the Knesset committee chair were very good.
> 
> (I hear Washington is gonna be about as hot as Haifa, albeit with less
> humidity. Wikimania 2013 in Reykjavik? Maybe we can make peace with
> the volcano that way too. :D)
> 
>> You the team rocks. Not only the conference in general I mean here -
>> you guys could have ignored some petty minor requests and inquires
>> just saying "it's out of our business" "we're busy". Sometimes I even
>> felt guilty to see your team's quick responses to the list and
>> elsewhere.
> I experienced the same thing: after asserting on identi.ca and Twitter
> that WM11 would have streaming, I got 3 or 4 replies from different
> organizers correcting me and apologizing for the lack of streaming,
> all in a few hours. Special thanks in this category to Danny B, who
> gave me the impression he had made it his personal mission to look
> after me, getting me water when I was presenting and polaroid pictures
> at the party, even though I'm sure he was plenty busy with other
> things.
> 
> I wish the WM11 team lots of recovery sleep after what I'm sure has
> been an exhausting week, and the WM12 team the best of luck trying to
> live up to this excellent example.
> 
> Roan
> 
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