[Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

Thu Aug 12 11:40:37 UTC 2010

People are raising there worries about Wikimania being hosted in Israel (me included), but one thing we should all bear in mind is that there WAS a bidding process - and that was the most suitable moment for everyone to raise their voices and concerns by challenging the bidding teams with whatever questions that we may have in mind.

> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:17:37 +0300
> From: osamak at gnu.org
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011
> 
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:59:38AM -0700, Mariano Cecowski wrote:
> > I beg to disagree; getting into United states is anything but easy.
> 
> Maybe it depends, but I assume it won't be much harder for a European,
> Asian or African to get one than a Saudi. Why are we discussing this
> anyway?
> 
> > And is not that Israel won't give visas to potential attendees; in
> > this case is the home nation of the interested ones that sets
> > obstacles.
> 
> That's not the issue I'm trying to address here. I'm saying it's
> difficult. Maybe Israel wants Arabs to be there (this is out of topic,
> but I'd assume that they surely don't like the fact that they're being
> disrespected for their actions). But what's important here is, again,
> that many, many people won't be able to come.
> 
> > Additionally, the current political situation between given
> > countries should not affect the realization of this apolitical,
> > non-religious global conference that seeks worldwide collaboration.
> 
> It's not about what Wikimania is what it is not.
> 
> -- 
> Osama Khalid
> English-to-Arabic translator and programmer.
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