Hi all, I would like to repeat my advice from last year: try to start off with a hilarious keynote. A comedian. Andrew is quite right Wikimania should be foremost a community event, and making the community feel as a community is an important aspect to that. Another alternative would be to have a keynote session at the beginning that aims at mixing the two crowds.
What I remember very clearly from Taiwan (and Egypt, Buenos Aires, Gdansk and Haifa in a lesser extent) was that the mixing between locals and internationals was quite limited. If we can find a way to bridge between these two, that would be good. Possibly humor might be a way to accomplish that - another possibility would be an activity (i.e. not listening to someone but someone who lets the hall *do* something in a fun and involving way). In those scenarios it wouldn't be so important that the person or their organization is well known, but the more important that there's a real impact. If it would be successfull, that could be a positive wave felt throughout the conference. Of course it is also a risk: if it fails, it would be quite awkward. Anyway, just throwing in a few cents :) Lodewijk El jueves, 4 de octubre de 2012, Andrew Lih escribió: > Hi folks, good to see you're asking early. > > Here's my two cents: > > There are several ways to go. Get someone interesting for: > 1. the Asia region > 2. Free culture or technology > 3. Community, Internet culture > 4. GLAM and public knowledge > > As for the current list, my feedback: > > 1. Ray Chan, 9gag. Certainly 9gag has made a splash in the geekier > Internet community, but it would be good to see what he'd want to talk > about first and whether it had any relevance to Wikipedians and free > culture. Important to remember: Wikimania is first and foremost a community > event, not just a great speaker series. > > 2. Charles Mok, certainly relevant to the conference, but not sure how > exciting a speaker he is. > > 3. Arianna Huffington. Not really a fan of this pick. Can get quite > political, and not obvious the overlap between her site and free culture. > > 4. Thomas Crampton is a good pick. He was a respected working journalist > and may be able to set the table on what Wikipedia and free culture mean > across Asia. > > 5. Don't know much about Ada Wong. > > That said, how about some other ideas: > > 1. Joi Ito. He's a great friend of Wikipedia, and spoke in 2007 Wikimania > in Taiwan. He's now MIT Media Lab director, and could give great Asia > perspectives. > > 2. Clay Shirky. I suggested this last year to DC, but it didn't go > anywhere. Not sure he'd want to make the long trip to HK. > > Perhaps instead of having one big keynote, we may want to have a few > smaller ones or invited speakers in slots. Just an idea, since it would > provide ways to get more Asia-based folks without the grandeur of a large > keynote spot. Crampton, for example, is a good example of someone I want to > hear speak but perhaps not as a headliner. > > We did something similar to this in Boston Wikimania by having a world > class lineup like Yochai Benkler, Brewster Kahle, David Weinberger, > Lawrence Lessig, Mitch Kapor, among others. It was an awesome set of > speakers. > > -Andrew > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Deryck Chan > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > > wrote: > >> Dear Wikimaniacs, >> >> Hello from the Wikimania 2013 Hong Kong local team! We are beginning the >> process of inviting external keynote speakers, and would like the wider >> Wikimania community to review our shortlist before we make formal >> invitations. >> >> Feel free to suggest additional names for the list. We have more than two >> names at the moment, so do reply if you have preferences among the list too! >> >> *Current shortlist, and suggested topics for each speaker:* >> Ray Chan, co-founder of 9gag.com >> *Creating an online user-generated community and how it's similar to >> Wikipedia* >> <http://www.blogosem.com/2012/01/9gag-foundercreator.html> >> >> Charles Mok, founder of Internet Society Hong Kong, member of LegCo (Hong >> Kong's parliament) >> *Copyright and censorship in the digital age, and how they interact with >> free culture* >> >> Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post >> *Create an online user generated community on the Internet and how it's >> similar to Wikipedia* >> >> Thomas Crampton, Social@Ogilvy >> *How South East Asia local cultures affect their online culture >> >> * >> Ada Wong, Founder of Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture and >> Supervisor of HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity (the only 'art high >> school' in Hong Kong) >> *Creating a creative community and open dialogues for young people in HK >> and in the region* >> >> Thank you in advance for your ideas! >> Deryck Chan >> Global engagement coordinator, Wikimania 2013 / Wikimedia Hong Kong >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > > -- > -Andrew Lih > Associate professor of journalism > USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism > Email: [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > WEB: http://www.andrewlih.com > BOOK: The Wikipedia Revolution: http:/www.wikipediarevolution.com > PROJECT: WikiFactcheck: http://wikifactcheck.org/wiki > > >
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