[Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

[Florence Devouard]

Le 4/30/13 12:52 PM, Richard Symonds a écrit :
> I think, perhaps, that the reform of the Wikimania bidding process could
> use a new thread!

Yaroslav is not telling us about his experience on the bidding process, 
but about his experience about (not) feeling loved and appreciated for 
his effort and involvement.

And boy... is that sad :(

Flo


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> On 30 April 2013 11:49, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
>
>> On 30.04.2013 01:12, Florence Devouard wrote:
>>
>>> Le 4/30/13 12:04 AM, Nathan a écrit :
>>>
>>
>>   In the past years, we have seen several times organizers of Wikimania
>>> plain disappear after the event. Burn-out. I do not think it is a good
>>> outcome. For no-one.
>>> And I do not think it is a good idea to slap a chapter organizing
>>> Wikimania this year with words such as "infant, minimal development,
>>> fuzzy strategic goals" whose funding would be "at an absolute minimum,
>>> mis-management and waste of donor resources".
>>>
>>> Organizing Wikimania is an effort which deserve a little bit more
>>> respect than this. Either we trust the chapter to host Wikimania or we
>>> do not. I do.
>>>
>>> And I think that even though you are free to think funding this
>>> chapter would be a bad move, it would be a good move from a human
>>> perspective to present apologies for using such a strong statement.
>>>
>>> Florence
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> My personal experience after being an active program committee member on
>> the 2010 Wikimania Organizing Committee was that my activity there (and I
>> believe in the end of the day we did a good job - for example, we managed
>> to accept all submissions with a very few exceptions) was only appreciated
>> by my fellow organizers. I have not heard any good words from anybody else,
>> a lot of bad words were coming from all kind of corners, and nobody in
>> 2011, 2012, 2013, or, for that matter, in 2014 ever contacted me asking
>> whether I would have any interest to do this job again. In 2011, someone
>> duly revoked my Wikimania wiki administrator flag saying smth like "not
>> needed anymore", and nobody cared to thank me or even to inform me of that.
>> I obviously decided afterwards that there are other, less painful ways I
>> can be do my community service, and lost all interest in Wikimania
>> organization.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Yaroslav
>>
>>
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