[WMCEE-l] CEE Meeting 2012

[Raul Veede]

As much or as little as I personally can represent WMEE, I can say
that we are definitely interested in CEE conference.

Yes, all kinds of cooperation can be organized without a conference. I
have a couple of ideas that I would be glad to discuss someday. But
any cooperation will go on much better if people meet in flesh time to
time. It helps to keep in mind that there are actual human beings on
the other side of the Internet. Indeed, one of the main problems of
Wikipedia discussions is we tend to forget that. Human species is
built that way, we have much less misunderstanding when talking face
to face.

That said, unfortunately, WMEE is too small and young (and too far
from potential locations) to help organizing this particular
conference. We're already trying to arrange a local visionary
conference (including possibly Jimbo, Estonian president, top-level IT
companies, etc) that would establish our strong presence in society
and media. It's kind of a kick-start for the chapter, and it takes
most of our energy right now. Sorry. Maybe we could host CEE a year or
two later.

Raul
WMEE board member

On 12/8/11, Tomasz Kozłowski <odder.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05.12.2011 07:31, Milos Rancic wrote:
>
>> So, may we create a team for preparing conference? WMPL and WMHU
>> should delegate at least one delegate [per chapter, of course]. WMRS
>> should delegate more than one person for organization, likely two or
>> three. Manuel Schneider told us that he'll help in setting up internet
>> connection. Others are welcome, as well. Organizational team (or at
>> least a part of it) should meet at least once in Belgrade before the
>> conference.
>
> I am wondering if the lack of an answer for this question means that
> there is no authentic interest in organising the conference we've been
> discussing since August? I am worried not only as a member of Wikimedia
> Poland (as there hasn't been a delegate from us yet), but also as a
> Wikimedian, because there are also other chapters that have people
> subscribed to this list...
>
> [I understand that Mile Kiš and Kiril Simeonovski are interested in
> being part of the team and representing their respective chapters, and
> Manuel Schneider would be Head of IT & Communications group :-) so we
> have already 3 people in the organising team. Any more volunteers?]
>
> Guys & girls: we have around 7 months left to prepare a conference that
> would not be the easiest to organise -- it the highest time that
> somebody takes the lead! (I might be willing to help in some things if
> that could help.)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]]
>
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