well, to host a convention here is definately and effort to put S.America in the game.
What you are discussing feels to me like one of the best issues to raise up in Round Tables.
Actually, Round tables were said to be proposed here on the list, so lets talk about this more later on.
I am up for parties alright...
2009/4/9 Jean-Noël Montagné jnm@rom.fr:
Salut Hans and PD community
First of all, thank you very much for all work you have done for the idea and server services. I am very busy for working for living, but also for Bricolabs.net projects ( bricophone.org, fluxtation.org, oswash.org), and I still can't handle the pdpedia project yet.
I think there could be newcomers to PD ready to assume this kind of responsability, individually or collectivelly. Did I have understood that Alexandre Porres and other PD users from Brazil could help us to find some people in south america ? it would be good to displace more the center of gravity of PD users in direction of the south ! and for many reasons Brazil will be the next PD country/community... Some people also have some grants to work on open source, wich is impossible in France for example... The profile needed is someone able to do some Wikipedia maintaining and hacking.
Cheers, JN
PS: what about a giant multilingual PDpedia party, PDFlossManual Party, PDVideopediaParty in the next PDconvention ?
There are lots of good ideas worth trying. We've talked about it a lot, we just need someone to take charge of it. I am just too overloaded to handle pdpedia on top of everything else. Who wants to own it?
.hc