I liked this in Gdańsk, but for an event the scale of HK it would take a lot of time!
Agree that some kind of central display of the formal and informal schedules would be very useful. And a big clock :) Perhaps if we have another big screen, an occasional "everything happening now/in an hour" display? A. On 14 Aug 2013 08:59, "maarten deneckere" < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > remember Wikimania Gdansk. After each plenary session in the morning, the > organisators asked all presentors to introduce their talk in about 1 min. A > great way to get a quick overview of what's happening. > > Regards, Maarten > > > 2013/8/14 Tomasz Ganicz <[email protected]> > >> I had problem to find several "break" meetings due to lack of any >> off-line information regarding it. I mean a kind of "oldschool" blackboard >> or flipchart standing on Logo Square with information where and when there >> are meetings could easily solve this problem. I missed 2 meetings (EU >> policy and teahouse) and joined one just because I spotted Asaf talking to >> group of the people) just because there was no clear information where it >> is. >> >> >> 2013/8/14 Lodewijk <[email protected]> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> reading back through my mailbox, I encountered huge amounts of >>> announcements (mostly by Wikimedia Deutschland) about events taking place >>> in breaks of Wikimania. Without wanting to form an opinion about that just >>> yet, I would like to ask what you think about having many side events going >>> on in the break/breakfast/evening. >>> >>> I personally am a bit caught between wanting to do as much as possible >>> in the limited time, and feeling that there was basically no break at all >>> (contributing to the exhaustion), because every break people were basically >>> asking you to attend break sessions. For some of them that is the only >>> choice (they intend to be informal), others probably belong primarily in >>> the schedule (assuming they were interesting). >>> >>> Anyway, just a conversation starter to evaluate the concept of break >>> events a bit more in general (I assume the chapters village etc in >>> particular will be evaluated separately too). >>> >>> Looking forward to your thoughts, >>> >>> Best, >>> Lodewijk >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz >> http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek >> http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ >> http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
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