[Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

Béria Lima berialima at gmail.com
Sat Mar 30 05:16:18 UTC 2013


[still in the off-topic]

*Hopefully hotels will be so expensive that Wikimania here won't be
> sustainable*.
>

Don't need to hope no more, hotels in Rio are *already* expensive because
of the World Cup renovations (is impossible to get a hotel in Rio for less
than 100 USD/night) and I do believe the price will double in 2014 and only
drop after 2016 (after yet another "let's-rob-the-people-and-impress-
foreigners" event)

_____
*Béria Lima*

*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>*


On 29 March 2013 20:09, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
everton.alvarenga em okfn.org> wrote:

> [off-topic]
>
>
> 2013/3/29 Matthew Roth <mroth em wikimedia.org>
> >
> > I hear 2014 will be a very busy year in Brasil
> > Some sport thing with a ball and a large green pitch :)
>
> Yeah, we are going to have the world cup, where millions and millions
> of reais (our currency) is going to corrupts to an event that lasts
> only a few days and only high middle class to rich people (and
> foreigners, hey!) will have access to.
>
> And silly people believe in the silly arguments of economical benefits
> from this crap. Just hace a look at South Africa case. :(
>
> Fortunately, I hope I will stay far from Brazil to don't see this,
> because only who live here and use Brazilian public services (I am not
> mentioneing the blind middle class) will see the consequences in the
> mid and long term of so much corruption.
>
> Hopefully hotels will be so expensive that Wikimania here won't be
> sustainable.
>
> Tom
>
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> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
> OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre
> http://br.okfn.org
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