On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Andy Cruz y Corro <andycyca@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> So in general there's not enough communication between Wikimania organizers
> for things like this. Why don't we organize some sort of Brain Trust with
> former organizers to give opinions and advice **in a timely manner** to
> whoever is the current organizing team? It can be a really easy setup (maybe
> nothing more than a small mailing list and/or skype chat) where the current
> team can ask "Hey, X: you dealt with this before. How did you do it?" Any
> former organizer who is interested can just throw their name in the hat with
> his/her area of expertise and that's it. Even more, since the proposed Trust
> is just an advisory team (meaning that the current organizers don't
> necessarily have to act upon the advise in the exact described way) this
> communication can even become private and informal.
>
> I think something like this is needed to improve future Wikimanias without
> compromising on those small things that make it a non-generic event. If we
> can manage a solution like this, sign me up.
>

Sounds like a good idea, as long as the answers that ought to be
recorded for posterity are added at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Handbook and subpages, which
should be the primary set of opinions and advice and checklists.

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