On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Kim Bruning <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem is that BDS (and others?) are explicitly acting against
> wikimania. I'd love to hear more reports
> on this. I think having a wikimania in haifa is actually going
> to be beneficial to all parties. :-)
>
Strictly speaking, we don't actually know this to be a problem. There is no
proof of the BDS campaign having dissuaded large numbers of potential
attendees, especially from Arab countries. Any such potential attendees
would have been dissuaded by other reasons, already discussed extensively on
this and other lists, -- political climate in their countries, personal
perception of attendance as implicit support of the Israeli government
policy, etc..
By all means go on publicizing WM2011 among Arabic speakers. Once again,
the local team has made it clear it is committed to helping anyone who would
like to attend. But perhaps it's time to stop pretending it is entirely up
to us whether Arabic speakers would be well-represented in this Wikimania or
not?
Asaf
--
Asaf Bartov
(personal opinion)
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