Wikimania-Meetings/9 March 2005

Combined program/planning meeting commenced without an agenda. Topics discussed:

• Presentations
  • List of possible guest speakers established on the Wikimania wiki, with a system for contacting them and establishing availability/willingness
  • Call for papers needs to be finalized and released; deadline on not established, but will likely be pushed back from original April 1 date
  • Presentations should be solicited from within the organization (editors) for a roughly 50/50 "inside/outside" balance
  • Guest speakers may need to be accommodated off-site; akl is calling nearby hotels to establish cost/logistics
• Activities
  • May allow rough schedule to be organized by the community at large before final revision by program committee
  • Leave schedule open for subproject/wikigroup events
  • Workshops to be discussed
• Registration
  • ... should be open by the deadline (end of March)
• On-site technical
  • HdJ floor plan to be constructed by presroi within the next few weeks; more detailed planning to follow

Changing the usual meeting time to better accommodate working Americans was also briefly discussed, and tabled to the mailing list.