It seems this is uncontroversial, so Ad's super-bold edit can be taken to finalize the venue. Thanks again, WMCH! :)
I have boldly taken another step forward, and drafted a description for the program team's work, here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Programme_team
Neither I nor WMF are trying to exert undue control over this process; rather, I am moving this forward in good faith and relying on other people to be equally bold in editing (or reverting!) anything I've stated there.
Looking forward to making this the most productive WMCON[1] ever! :)
A.
[1] I remain entirely uninterested in what this event gets called. Feel free to advocate for calling it The Great Platypus Appreciation Society Gathering of 2015 or anything else, here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Conference_2015
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Ad Huikeshoven ad@wikimedia.nl wrote:
I have updated the page on meta to reflect this decision. [1] Next item on the list: determine program committee. Could we agree on having James Hare as program committee lead?
Cheers,
Ad
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Conference_2015&d...
2014-10-16 4:22 GMT+02:00 Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org:
Hello, everyone.
Weeks go by, and the previous conversation was throughly derailed, so out of a profound interest in ensuring a high-value event, I am bringing this up again: we[3] *need to make progress* with planning the
working-meeting-featuring-Wikimedia-affiliates-and-WMF-and-the-WMF-Board-and-AffCom[4],
whatever we may end up calling it[1].
In the interest of moving on to focus on more substantive issues, and in light of there being only a single bid submitted so far[5], may I boldly *suggest that it be accepted* and that we devote the rest of the time until the spring to ensuring the lessons[6] of the previous years be heeded in *significant preparatory work* by the program team and the affiliates?
Asaf
[1] or whatever we may choose to rename it. The previous thread was successfully killed by the digression into the event's name. Let's try
to
keep this one on track, and discuss the name ELSEWHERE[2], shall we? [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Conference_2015 [3] yes, not all the hundreds of people on this mailing list. But this
is
still the channel that reaches the greatest number of Wikimedia
affiliates.
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Bids [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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