Hello Gerard, I believe the topic of capping costs is a reasonable one
because, simply put, there are not unlimited resources within the movement.
Some of us have the financial wherewithal to attend "on our own dime", but
many of our colleagues from around the world are not in that position.
Your point about sharing lessons is important. It would be good to put
significant focus on how to share lessons in ways that are significantly
less expensive and have the opportunity to reach a broader audience.
Wikimania, for all its good points, isn't necessarily the best way to share
a lot of these lessons. It's very expensive for everyone, there's very
limited evidence that many of those lessons have been effectively utilized
by other similar groups, and the presentations and lessons may not hit the
most logical target audiences.
I've not expressed a particular opinion about any of the proposed
"Wikimania solutions" but I do believe that there is a real place for more
focused, specialized conferences such as Hackathons, Wikisource conference
and the CEE conference. I also believe we have to work harder at capturing
lessons and sharing them in a more permanent way, such as the "learnings"
that many groups have created and shared with the assistance of Community
Engagement. I'm sure we can think of more ways to share information that
doesn't involve people having to fly half-way around the world and spend
thousands of dollars.
Risker/Anne
On 9 February 2016 at 10:40, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
When you cap Wikimania, who is not to come? Who is not relevant enough. We
are a big movement and there is a reason for that. You care about health,
what about mental health? How do you learn the lessons from the Malayalam
source movement. There is more than we can do and you talk about capping
funding.. WHY
Thanks,
GerardM
On 9 February 2016 at 16:25, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes I am also not a big fan of moving Wikimania
to every two years.
Meeting
once a year on a global scale is important. I
could see possibly keeping
it
smaller / capping funding.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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