Thread:MisterWoodhouse/@comment-39340968-20200122213040/@comment-24006128-20200122222936

We're looking for a few things when it comes to Connect attendees:

- Does this person make awesome contributions to their wiki communities? User Experience Research surveys can get us a fairly compresensive understanding of the users who don't engage with the site beyond consumption of content. For wiki contributors, the input can be more nuanced and so the direct conversations we have at events like Connect are crucial.

- '''Does this person provide actionable feedback to staff? '''Saying "I don't like this" isn't actionable. Telling us why you feel a certain way about a change or a feature or a policy and - better still - how you would like that thing to be instead and why is incredibly helpful.

- Does this person represent a point of view we feel is not well represented in the attendees list already? If you have a wiki which makes use of our platform tools in very interesting ways, you have a high chance of being invited.

- '''Can we get this person to Connect efficiently? '''That last one is pretty important because we pay for and arrange the travel. If potential future events are in the United States, we have to consider visa requirements (both time and country of origin), the logistical difficulties of getting them to the United States, and the cost.