imo.
Vince
2014-04-02 20:32 GMT+02:00 Cornelius Kibelka <jckibelka(a)gmail.com>om>:
Yes, finally the discussion we need! Pity that it
happens only one week
before the conference itself.
My point of view:
We have different types of conference: GLAMCamp, EduWiki, Wikimania,
whatever.
Beside Wikimania, which is quite a "fruit salad" of topics and themes and
seen as *the* gathering of the global Wikimedia community, all of thoses
confereces have quite a special, limited scope. I see the Wikimedia
Conference as the highly political, meta level conference. This is the only
meeting in the year where we can discuss governance, strategy, movement
politics issues only, excluding all the programmatic work. As it is the
only meeting of this type during the year, at least a part of the programme
team tried to keep all the sessions in this meta scope. We felt a need for
those topics, which can't be discussed at those other meetings.
Obviously, it doesn't seem to be so clear for many people. Maybe the
majority even thinks that we don't even need that type of conference. Who
knows.., all discussion adressing this issue fizzled out in the last three
past.
However, please think about this! It's important. At the conference we'll
have a special session about this, the session is called actually "Future
of the Wikimedia Conference". We need input from everyone to see how we
should continue and what should happen next year.
Best
Cornelius
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On 2 April 2014 19:16, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am genuinely puzzled as to why, if nobody on the WMUK board (such as
the CEO or the current Chairman) is sure what the purpose of the
conference is, they should chose to invest the donor's money in
sending 5 trustees and 3 full time employees to it (presumably the
employees are being paid for their time rather than going as
volunteers).
Just to be clear, I know what the benefits we will get out of it are,
and
I
can tell you the direction that I would like the
conference to take in
future; I'm just wondering whether others have the same perception.
This is not a new question, as Nathan has pointed out, and he is probably
right to say it is best to continue it here;
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference
Chris
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