On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Alice Wiegand
<me.lyzzy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is this really a discussion about the name of a
conference or is it more a
discussion about inclusion and exclusion with the underlying question if
this conference, which once was set up as a meeting for the organizations
within the Wikimedia movement, should be open for non-organized Wikimedians
as well. Which would probably be a different conference.
I think this discussion is both. But the immediate, acute, and solvable
problem (the inaccurate name of the conference) should not be ignored, just
because there *might* be a larger, hazier problem that will not be solved
today or tomorrow. Some progress is better than no progress.
Personally, I have no problem with the existence of the conference, but I
find its name alienating. Not everyone agrees with that assessment, but
clearly some others in this thread do.
Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
What Pete said.
We could go into issues with the exclusionary nature itself, such as
that it would exclude representatives of groups who ran into trouble
becoming official - despite such a conference likely being one of the
best venues for them to bring up and discuss with relevant others how to
actually address or resolve that trouble that excluded them in the first
place...
...but that sort of thing is much harder to resolve/address. The name,
at least, is simple, and should also make a lot of the other problems
less glaring in the process.
-I