/me mumbles something about a bikeshed that has a beautiful shade of blue.
2014-09-11 20:06 GMT+02:00 James Forrester <james(a)jdforrester.org>rg>:
On 11 September 2014 10:52, Ilario Valdelli
<valdelli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11.09.2014 18:42, James Forrester wrote:
> On 11 September 2014 09:27, Anh Chung <anh.chung.wmch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>>
>> Wikimania has been over for a month now and it is already time to
discuss
>> the next Wikimedia event, the Wikimedia
Conference.
>>
>> Though I'm sure the event is worthy, I will repeat yet again the
request
> from the Wikimania Committee for people to
please stop calling it "the
> Wikimedia Conference" when it isn't about Wikimedia, just some Wikimedia
> organisations, and isn't an open conference, against the ethos of
> Wikimedia.
>
> "Wikimedia Associations Meeting 2015" is much less misleading, and
closer
to
reality.
Against the funds of WMF.
A second conference open to the public would be a second yearly
Wikimania,
and to open it means to have a budget more or
less equal to Wikimania.
Indeed, which is why we keep asking for the name to stop being a lie.
J.
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
capacity)
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