Talk:EduWiki Conference 2013

Great to see this taking shape - well done all. Jon Davies WMUK (talk) 14:40, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, Jon. I'm pretty sure that the collaborative effort of all involved will make this a worthy follow-up to last year's EduWiki conference. --Toni Sant (WMUK) (talk) 15:57, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Date

The date doesn't seem right.. I think the 1 November is a Friday, not Saturday. Mark M (talk) 13:28, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

You're absolutely right! It's should be Friday 1 and Saturday 2 November 2013. Well spotted! Thank you very much. I'll fix it right away. --Toni Sant (WMUK) (talk) 18:22, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Audience attendance

Hi all. One of the big challenges for a conference like this is bringing together the two different audiences - those that work in education, and those that work on the Wikimedia projects - and helping them have a joint discussion about the common goals that they are working towards, and the issues that are faced along the way. Those two audiences have rather different working hours, though - one audience works primarily during the week between 9am-5pm, the other works primarily over the weekend and evenings. So this conference needs to ask both groups to spend some time outside of their normal working hours in order to interact fully - by asking wikimedians to spend a workday at the conference, and asking educators to spend a weekend day at the conference. I hope that the conference attendees will be willing to make this sacrifice.

On that basis, I would recommend that there is a single registration fee for the whole conference, rather than having day rates, which would hopefully help bring the two audiences together. It might also be worth thinking about bundling overnight accommodation into the registration fee to help facilitate this. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:53, 1 May 2013 (UTC)