2010/7/31 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: > On 31 July 2010 16:27, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 31 July 2010 16:21, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: >> >>> But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any >>> proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal >>> meetings between Wikimedians are not just fun for them, but actually >>> beneficial to the Wikimedia community, the Internet, the Humanity? Can >>> anyone here give me solid examples of successful projects that were >>> born thanks to past Wikimanias? >> >> >> Most of the chapters. > > Are you sure? Don't chapters come out of local meetups more than > Wikimanias? Three chapters pre-date the first Wikimania and one was > founded a week after (so I don't think Wikimania can take credit for > that). Can you give some examples of chapters you know were founded as > a result of a Wikimania? I can imagine some people being inspired to > form chapters after meeting people from other chapters, but I don't > know any definite examples of it actually happening.
In 2006 Wikimania in Boston there was a brief, informal meetup of chapter committee, existing chapters boards members and people thinikg to establish their own chapters. I don't know if it was the results of only this meeting but several weeks/months after this meeting Wikimedia Israel, Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Netherlands were established mainly by people who attended this meeting. See us 4 years younger: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_chapters_meetup_Wikimania_2006 -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
