Hurrah! Yes, definitely someone should go. Johan Jönsson and Leon Ziemba
will be there from Community Tech, so I *think* that means I won't be
(even though I desperately would love to talk to more people about
Wikisource!). Perhaps that depends on what non-top-10 items from the
Wishlist Survey are to be worked on (and that's not clear quite yet). If
a Wikisource one (i.e. Han characters, or import-wizard; they're they
top-voted) is chosen, then perhaps I could come too.
Anyway, someone should be there representing Wikisource as well!
Would it be good to set up a meeting sometime (IRC or hangouts maybe)
to talk about things? I'm sure timezones etc. will be a problem, but
might be good.
—sam
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, at 05:22 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> and happy holidays :-)
>
> As a User Group, we are eligible to send one member to the Wikimedia
> Conference in Berlin [1].
> I participated last year, and if I'm not mistaken Micru did in 2015.
> The conference is a place where the WMF, chapters and other affiliates
> gather to discuss many topics, and it's a great occasion for advocacy.
> I remember that last year I had the chance to sit with Danny Horn
> (from Community Tech team) for a whole hour to show him Wikisource
> stuff and issues. He told me they needed a new member of the team. Few
> months later, our own Sam Wilson was picked. Of course, that is all to
> Sam's credit (he's really good), but there is much more awareness in
> the WMF about Wikisource, and we are the ones who have to *build* that
> awareness. That conversation I had with Danny )among many others)
> helped, and so we gotta keep talking to people and explaining what
> Wikisource is.
> And our work is not finished.
> Things are slowly improving, but we want them to improve more
> and faster.
> And we gotta check that there are improving constantly.
> So this is why I think these gatherings are important.
> We have the chance to send one of us to Berlin: and we should have
> some candidates.
> Not sure how we should do it (maybe a "formal" election?) but the
> first thing is see how many of us are willing to go, so please reply
> to this mail and candidate yourself if you will.
> I'm available, and I'd like to go, but I also went last year, so we
> shall decide all together.
>
> Aubrey
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Eligibility_Criteria
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