Talk:Wikimedia Conference 2013/Schedule

Starting Point[edit]

Maybe we should start from here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2012/Schedule --3BRBS (talk) 17:08, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

State of the movement[edit]

Rewriting here what I said elsewhere.

For what it's worth, I find spreading this session (state of the movement) over three days extremely unfortunate. State of the movement is always a very good opportunity for people to exchange on what has been done in this or that country, and is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and motivating session of the Wikimedia conference.

While I understand that this is also extremely long due to the number of organisations, I would strongly advise to review the schedule to accomodate this session if possible in the first day, or at most in the first two days, to give every organisation the opportunity to present what they do and provide talking points with other representatives in the remaining time. Having the last ones on Sunday is just too far in the conference to allow lots of exchange taking place (not to mention that if you're unluckily at the end of the alphabet, you get to have the grumpy Sunday audience ;)). notafish }<';> 12:16, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

+1. Wikimedia South Africa would be right at the end of this track on Sunday. Perhaps you could also put preference to Chapters before thematic groups? It is a Wikimedia Chapters Conference Afterall. -- Thuvack (talk) 14:57, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. While WMIN comes in Day 2, I think having them in one day makes it easy for everyone to pick up ideas from each other. ----Rsrikanth05 (talk) 15:43, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As written by email, I see your point, but putting everything on Friday seems really too much (it's not impossible, but it would require having almost only the state of the movement).

We can try to use two days only. We can do like this:

people in the first two days: try do really use no more than 3 minutes
people in the third day: prepare in advance and stay ready. If there's time, you can go in the first or second day.

I strongly disagree on segregating the thematic organizations. This is not the Chapters (only) Meeting anymore. Actually, I'm of the opposite opinion: in sorting the different organizations, I made sure that in this pseudo-alphabetical order the thematic organizations are evenly distributed. - Laurentius (talk) 21:14, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I hope we can make it work to have no chapters present on Sunday, as some people also might be leaving and it would be a shame to have some chapters present in front of an empty room ;). I also strongly disagree in separating thematic organisations and such from chapters. Either we are a global movement, or we aren't. I believe we are, so everyone should get "equal treatment". As for this is a chapter conference, although it is referred as such on this page and elsewhere, the official name of it has been over the past few years the "Wikimedia Conference", which says it all :) notafish }<';> 00:23, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

FDC schedule[edit]

For those interested in the FDC schedule (which overlaps with the conference schedule, and continues immediately afterwards), please see FDC portal/FDC members/2012-2013 round2/Deliberations. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:51, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Barcamp[edit]

How do we add sessions for barcamp? --Fæ (talk) 14:18, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Add them to [1] or just live tomorrow morning. - Laurentius (talk) 15:07, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]