[Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

Thu Aug 12 11:56:23 UTC 2010

Osama: exactly. Be sure to raise any issues early. Although it's still too early, i'm already keeping my eye on the Wikimania 2012 meta page and some bids have been made from Sydney, Stanford, and Barcelona/Andorra;-)

> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:46:33 +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 11:40:37AM +0000, Abbas Mahmoud wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> True. That was a valid point I agreed with when I talked to some
> people at Wikimania Poland about this issue.
> 
> I wonder if we can do more to publicize the process and to get more
> opinions involved. The only thing I'm trying to do is to explain why
> Israel is not a good choice, why I cannot get involved and how we can
> avoid such a conversation in the coming Wikimanias.
> 
> -- 
> Osama Khalid
> English-to-Arabic translator and programmer.
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