What a wonderful offering ... Looks like you might need to plan a longer visit Asaf, or perhaps regional ones ;-)
> On 27 Feb 2018, at 11:36 PM, Georges Fodouop <georges_fodo...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > > Hello Asaf, > > Our community will be happy to receive you at Yaounde, Douala or Buea. > Let us know about next step. > > Regards, > ____________________________________ > Georges Fodouop > > > Informaticien > Co-founder : > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Cameroon_User_Group > User : Geugeor > Wikipédien en résidence : www.wikiloveswomen.org > Formateur wikimedia > > > Douala - Cameroun > +237 677 71 20 68 / +237 695 33 18 84 > > -------------------------------------------- > En date de : Mar 27.2.18, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> a écrit : > > Objet: [African Wikimedians] Sub-Saharan Africa visit? > À: "Mailing list for African Wikimedians" > <african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Mardi 27 février 2018, 20h15 > > Some of you know > me, but for those of you who don't, let me introduce > myself briefly: I am a program officer at the Wikimedia > Foundation, and work in the Community Resources (formerly > called Grantmaking) team. While I handled grants in the > past, I am now working on capacity-building activities with > emerging communities, in a program called Community Capacity > Development[1] (CCD, [[m:CCD]]), one aspect of which -- the > Community Capacity Map[2] (CCM, [[m:CCM]]) -- you may have > run across on the Wikimedia-l in the past few > weeks. > I write today to ask whether your community would > be interested in discussing a possible visit to Sub-Saharan > Africa by me, with several related goals in each country > I'd visit, including:* a strategy/planning > workshop with the group of active contributors. This would > build on any existing plans or strategy you have, and also > integrate thinking about the broad goals identified in the > movement strategy project's phase 1 (presented at > Wikimania in Montreal in August 2017.)* Meetings > with important existing/prospective partners (if deemed > helpful)* Public speaking (if deemed > helpful)* capacity-building workshops for your > community members, on topics such as (I'll need your > help in determining which of these would be > useful):** Free licenses, non-free licenses, > copyright, and OTRS (or: How to contribute to the Wikimedia > Commons)** Composing encyclopedic prose from a > neutral point of view (NPOV)** Negotiating > notability and reliability requirements on > Wikipedia** Conflict management for > Wikipedians** Group facilitation > skills** Introduction to Wikidata** > Querying Wikidata with SPARQL** Modern tools > demonstration** How to build a > partnership** etc. > Some logistical details: > *If I come, it would be after the Wikimedia > Conference and before Wikimania, i.e. between late April and > early July.* If I come, I would probably stay in > Africa for between two and three weeks total, to have enough > time for the above in several countries, and to accommodate > your needs and availability.* I will have a > budget for some domestic travel, to bring key volunteers > together* No expenses are expected from your > group's budget. Only your time and > cooperation. > Please take some time to discuss this idea and > let me know if your community is sufficiently interested > that we should discuss it further, over email or a video > call. If you feel this would not be very helpful, or you > really can't accommodate any additional activities > before July this year, *please* don't feel obligated to > respond. I am genuinely interested in helping, and there are > other communities I could be supporting with this budget and > time, so I won't be offended or upset, promise! > :) > I look forward to hearing from you. > Asaf > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCD [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCM > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > -----La pièce jointe associée suit----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians Isla Haddow-Flood Co-project Director Username: Islahaddow
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