[Wikimedia-l] Updates from WM-IL

2013-05-13 Thread Dorit Shafir Dyamant
Greetings to everyone,

 I would like to share with you two important events that will soon
occurin our Israeli
Chapter:

== Hackathon Tel Aviv ==
WMIL's first developers' meeting, at Google campus in Tel Aviv. Wikimedia
Israel has already held a number of national and international conferences
on various topics, but this is the first conference dedicated solely to
technology.

May 23rd ,10:00-22:00. Participation is free and if you are in the area,
you're welcome to join :)
http://www.wikimedia.org.il/events/hackathon-tlv-2013/

Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/548667148502734/

Amir E. Aharoni is leading this event.


== Wikipedia Academy Israel ==

On June 2nd we will conduct our fifth Wikipedia Academy conference. For the
second time, the conference will be held in the Interdisciplinary Center
(IDC) Herzliya. The main theme for the conference will be women's
participation in editing Wikipedia. It will mostly focus on the causes,
effects and consequences of the low percentage of women among the authors
of Wikipedia. Bishakha Datta will be our keynote speaker and we are
expecting about 150 participates.

June 2nd ,09:30-18:00. Participation is free.
http://www.wikimedia.org.il/events/conf13/

Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/502016313190755/

Deror Lin is leading this event.


All the best
Dorit Shafir Dyamant
Executive director WM-IL
do...@wikimedia.org.il
972+058-4445590

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Wikimedia Conference feedback - Grazie mille!

2013-04-22 Thread Dorit Shafir Dyamant
Thank all of you in *WMIT* for your hard work and organization.
It was Beautiful and inviting conference.
I enjoyed very much all gatherings and found them very Interesting and
informative.

Milan is gorgeous!

It was great to meet everyone.
Till we meet again
Dorit
WM-IL





2013/4/21 Samuel Klein 

> Ditto: A warm thanks to WMIT for taking up the call, and to everyone who
> took part in the conference. I enjoyed it tremendously and found both
> formal and informal parts facilitated well.  I regret that I had to fly
> back a day early!
>
> For those staying on past tonight: as bars go, I recommend the Ostello
> Bello, by Missori station, where a few of us stayed. It is not only an
> excellent hostel, it runs a wonderfully energetic and inexpensive bar with
> 2 floors of seating, and table games & guitars to  play.  (Packed every
> night I was there :)
>
> Sj,
> Just landing in Newark
> On Apr 21, 2013 11:51 AM, "Chris Keating" 
> wrote:
>
> > (off-topic)
> >
> > >
> > > And how come an "English pub" in Italia?! At least the grapa was good.
> ;)
> >
> >
> > As I mentioned to a few people at the time, the beer was mainly German,
> > Czech and Irish, and the spirits mainly Scottish, American, Italian and
> > Russian,  and the food was mainly nachos.
> >
> > Might not sound very English but that's exactly like every pub in London.
> > :-)
> >
> > I will now stop spamming the list and get on my flight.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMIL new Executive Director

2013-04-11 Thread Dorit Shafir Dyamant
  Greetings to all of you

I want to thank you all for the kind words.
Hope to meet you at the upcoming conference in Milan.

All the best
Dorit



*בברכה,
*
*דורית שפיר דיאמנט
*
מנהלת פעילות כללית
ויקימדיה ישראל
do...@wikimedia.org.il / 058-4445590
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2013/4/10 Stevie Benton 

> Congratulations and welcome from the UK!
>
> Stevie
>
> On 10 April 2013 10:23, Delphine Ménard  wrote:
>
> > Bienvenue/Wilkommen Dorit! I am looking forward to meeting you in Milan.
> >
> > Delphine
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Itzik Edri  wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After four months
> > >
> > > After 6 years without employees, and 4 months of the recruitment
> process
> > > (collecting resumes and interviews)  I happy to announce that last
> month
> > > WMIL hired Executive Director to support the increase in WMIL's
> > activities,
> > > projects, volunteers and professionalization..
> > >
> > > Meet Dorit Shafir Dyamant:
> > >
> > > Over the last decade she mainly worked at NGO's in a variety of roles:
> > from
> > > marketing  through projects management and producing conferences. She
> > have
> > > MA degree in nonprofit management from the Hebrew University in
> Jerusalem
> > > and B.A in literature and comparative philosophy from University of
> > Haifa.
> > >
> > > As a student at the Hebrew University, she founded and produced for 6
> > years
> > > the project "Words and poets' - an open evenings meetings for young
> > poets.
> > >
> > > She married to Itay, and mother to Marom and Shalev. And I quote her,
> "I
> > > love to read three books at the same time, I write primarily for myself
> > all
> > > my life, and I fervently supports positive thinking and action based
> > > sharing and cross-fertilization."
> > >
> > > She will attend the ChapConf in Milan next week and I encourage her
> > > colleagues (CEO/ED and any chapters representatives or WMF's staff) to
> > meet
> > > her, share tips and welcome her to our Wikimedia family!
> > >
> > > Dorit email is do...@wikimedia.org.il and she already been subscribed
> to
> > > all the relevant mailing lists.
> > >
> > > I will use this opportunity also to share our new website (we just
> > launched
> > > it today) - we still have lot of bugs to fix and text improvement, but
> as
> > > most of you can't understand Hebrew, it will not really change a lot
> for
> > > you :) (We will launch the English version in the next few weeks):
> > > http://www.wikimedia.org.il
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Itzik Edri
> > > WMIL Chairman
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