Just to add - transportation was not a consideration to moving the conference
to the Hilton, however this solved the serious transportation issues, and
allowed starting the conference an hour earlier every day, and ending later,
thus allowing time in the scheduled and allowing acceptance of about 30 more
talks.Deror (Programme team)
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Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 15:23:12 -0700
From: Ellie Young <[email protected]>
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Back in May when we announced to this mailing list that registration was open
we included the following:
* WMF and WM-MX are grateful to Conaculta and the Biblioteca Vasconcelos for
their kind offer to host the conference at the magnificent Biblioteca.
However, due to logistical issues, we had to change the venue to the Hilton
Hotel La Reforma. We will continue to work with both Conaculta and the
Biblioteca Vasconcelos to leverage the experience and capacity of all
institutions to generate and disseminate content that guarantees free and open
knowledge to the whole of society.
The biggest logistical issue at the Biblioteca that wasn’t resolved at that
time was
being able to guarantee that our connectivity requirements could be met.
Ellie Young
WMF Conference Coordinator
> On Aug 2, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In the 2014 Wikimania bidding process the library was advertised as the
> conference venue.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos>>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos
>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos>>
>
> At some point the venue changed to the Hilton Hotel.
>
> I had been excited that there would be a conference in a library. We had a
> nice conference just the same.
>
> Where can I find whatever published explanation and discussion there has been
> about the venue change?
>
> Also- thanks to all volunteer organizers for presenting a great Mexico
> conference. Everyone who contributed should be very proud and I hope that no
> one criticizes anything that any of the volunteers did. The conference was
> great thanks to the volunteer organizers.
>
> Thanks,
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Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 22:54:14 +0000
From: Joseph Fox <[email protected]>
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I imagine another major aspect was getting hundreds of scholarship
recipients and WMF staff from the hotel all the way across town to the
library at 8.30am every morning. :(
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 at 23:23 Ellie Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> Back in May when we announced to this mailing list that registration was
> open we included the following:
>
> * WMF and WM-MX are grateful to Conaculta and the Biblioteca Vasconcelos for
> their kind offer to host the conference at the magnificent Biblioteca.
> However, due to logistical issues, we had to change the venue to the Hilton
> Hotel La Reforma. We will continue to work with both Conaculta and the
> Biblioteca Vasconcelos to leverage the experience and capacity of all
> institutions to generate and disseminate content that guarantees free and open
> knowledge to the whole of society.
>
> The biggest logistical issue at the Biblioteca that wasn’t resolved at
> that time was
> being able to guarantee that our connectivity requirements could be met.
>
> Ellie Young
> WMF Conference Coordinator
>
>
> On Aug 2, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In the 2014 Wikimania bidding process the library was advertised as the
> conference venue.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos>
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City/Biblioteca_Vasconcelos
> >
>
> At some point the venue changed to the Hilton Hotel.
>
> I had been excited that there would be a conference in a library. We had a
> nice conference just the same.
>
> Where can I find whatever published explanation and discussion there has
> been about the venue change?
>
> Also- thanks to all volunteer organizers for presenting a great Mexico
> conference. Everyone who contributed should be very proud and I hope that
> no one criticizes anything that any of the volunteers did. The conference
> was great thanks to the volunteer organizers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Lane Rasberry
> user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
> 206.801.0814
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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 12:14:42 +0530
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Hi Andy Mabbett,
Sorry for late reply. At that time I didn't see that is necessary, so I
didn't ask any explanation. I hoped someone more eligible probably got the
scholarship. I only realised very late that so many people were excluded.
Please see some responses also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Rsrikanth05&oldid=674303324#Wikimania_Scholarship,
an earlier similar responce can be seen here:
https://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Praveenp&oldid=2197847#Wikimania
Praveen P
user:praveenp
On 31 July 2015 at 18:04, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31 July 2015 at 09:02, praveenp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > scholarships
>
> When you asked the scholarship committee(s) for feedback on your
> application(s), what were you told?
>
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