Lodewijk and Marc - Others might express their own needs but having open spaces like you described would satisfy me. If this has happened in previous years then I was less conscious of it when I was enjoying them, and more conscious of it when I felt its absence.
thanks - On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Marc-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > On 2016-07-07 08:27 AM, Lane Rasberry wrote: > >> Backing up - one way to improve Wikimania to meet this and other demands >> is to >> 1. Have extra spaces for small meetups >> 2. Put those spaces on a public schedule which can be edited by the >> community >> >> > So, in practice, that already exists for Montreal in two flavours: > > (a) Bird-of-a-Feather sessions, which are open to anyone to schedule (in > advance) and have reserved meeting space. Those will be open for > reservation from about three months before the event to as late as we can > make it and still have them appear in the programme. Those are ideal for > preplanned meetings and probably what you'd use for the North American > meetups. > > (b) Unconferency meetups, that are *not* scheduled in advance, but for > which both meeting space and a common scheduling system (think > "whiteboard") are made available for ad-hoc meetings during the conference > and preconference. Any room which had been set aside for the BoF that was > not used will be added to the pool, but there /will/ be meeting space even > if all of the BoF slots are taken. > > > -- Coren / Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 [email protected]
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