I imagine another major aspect was getting hundreds of scholarship
recipients and WMF staff from the hotel all the way across town to the
library at 8.30am every morning. :(
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 at 23:23 Ellie Young <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Back in May when we announced to this mailing list
that registration was
open we included the following:
* WMF and WM-MX are grateful to Conaculta and the Biblioteca Vasconcelos for
their kind offer to host the conference at the magnificent Biblioteca.
However, due to logistical issues, we had to change the venue to the Hilton
Hotel La Reforma. We will continue to work with both Conaculta and the
Biblioteca Vasconcelos to leverage the experience and capacity of all
institutions to generate and disseminate content that guarantees free and open
knowledge to the whole of society.
The biggest logistical issue at the Biblioteca that wasn’t resolved at
that time was
being able to guarantee that our connectivity requirements could be met.
Ellie Young
WMF Conference Coordinator
On Aug 2, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com> wrote:
Hello,
In the 2014 Wikimania bidding process the library was advertised as the
conference venue.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos>
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City/Biblioteca_…
At some point the venue changed to the Hilton Hotel.
I had been excited that there would be a conference in a library. We had a
nice conference just the same.
Where can I find whatever published explanation and discussion there has
been about the venue change?
Also- thanks to all volunteer organizers for presenting a great Mexico
conference. Everyone who contributed should be very proud and I hope that
no one criticizes anything that any of the volunteers did. The conference
was great thanks to the volunteer organizers.
Thanks,
--
Lane Rasberry
user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
206.801.0814
lane(a)bluerasberry.com
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