I think I just put some helpful comment (which i think) to the future And for the Hong Kong planning I think the strategy is pretty settled Only things I need to think about Is the reaction to sudden changes to situations Which I don't think I can actually think about it, as I don't know what to expect as no one can lol
Sent from my iPhone On 5 May, 2013, at 17:32, Manuel Schneider <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 05.05.2013 11:17, schrieb Jeromy Chan: >> I do have some conversation on this >> With Ellie Young, the conference coordinator in WMF >> >> Especially some repetitive labour on sponsor every year >> And sort of pool of general sponsor and brand of Wikimania stuff > > I had a long discussion with Ellie on Saturday. I think she will be a > great help and value for further Wikimania organisation. > > The organisation though should be as much as possible done by > volunteers, with staff *support*. This is what Wikimania is and how our > movement works. That's why I ended up with so many teams / committees, > because we need to split up the work in different expertise groups. > > I suggested that sponsoring should be locally with WMF staff support (so > no committee) before I had the discussion with her but she basically > confirmed me in the idea: The staff has the best abilities to maintain > connections to the high-profile global sponsors. I can't imagine a > committe of volunteers doing that. > >> Actually I am not sure if everybody happy with these ideas, however if > we need to continue without too much worries and repetitive labour > > I think you are touching a general problem here which I also mentioned > in our discussion: The support should be in a "non-intrusive" way (I > hope I picked the right wording here), the local team should feel > supported, reliefed, helped, not dominated or patronized. > This is the major risk I see with the new setup and I want to avoid that > - been there, done that. > I have worked on many projects and event teams, with volunteers, staff > and without, with support from big Wikimedia entities and without and I > know how things can turn out sometimes. > > I don't expect everyone to love my ideas. They are a first draft fromthe > back of my head. They should be discussed, adjusted or maybe completely > thrown out and replaced by something better. > > We once briefly discussed the idea of having a real-life Wikimania > workshop. I think this discussion is hard to do - at least to come up > with a final result - on a mailinglist. I think all interested parties - > don't need to be those who volunteer to sit on such a committee only - > should come together, discuss, argue, brainstorm, put together the > pieces and ideas into a complete concept. > That done we could start cleanly into the next Wikimania bidding (or > whatever decided then) process, making it aso clear for the next teams > what they can expect, what we will expect and how the processes will be > going. > > For Wikimania Hong Kong it will be an exceptional sitation because you > are way into planning and you are getting additional support. You > shouldn't be influenced by this whole planning for new concepts at all. > You are definitely invited to participate in the discussions and be > involved in the new processes, though. > > > /Manuel > -- > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
