[Foundation-l] A question for the Wikimania jury

Tue Apr 1 09:16:36 UTC 2008

Hoi,
There have been conferences in the Netherlands several times. The Wikimedia
Foundation did not pay for the conferences.

If you want a conference, get your arse into gear and organise one.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Never say never ;) There is nothing barring Am-wiki.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jason Safoutin <jason.safoutin at wikinewsie.org>
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 12:57:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A question for the Wikimania jury
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> foundation-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> > If you're interested in establishing a more regular North American or
> > Europe-wide conference the for years when we don't have Wikimania in the
> > area, then great! We can certainly use more local organization of this
> > sort in the US, and at the Europe-wide level in addition to the numerous
> > country-wide groups there.
> >
> > - -- brion vibber
> >
> Well that would be nice but would WMF pay for all these conferences? Who
> would organize them other than one person? This isn't a task for one or
> two people much less someone with no experience in doing so.
>
> Last I heard the "Conference of The America's" is not happening. Why?
> Not too sure why but if I cannot afford a trip to Buenos Aires or Egypt
> I certainly cannot afford to make my own conference.
>
> Jason Safoutin (DragonFire1024)
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