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 > _________________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
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