Hello, You are aware of the unfortunate coronavirus outbreak globally. In light of the concerns with respect to COVID 19/Coronavirus outbreak in several parts of the world, CIS-A2K, after getting instructions from WMF[1] and recommendations from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) management and the board, will be implementing the following measures: 1) Given the risk of human to human transmission, we are currently cancelling/postponing our all offline/on-site Wiki-events such as workshops, conferences etc. You might have noticed in another thread[2] on this mailing list that we have decided not to conduct Hackathon at this moment, which was supposed to be conducted at the end of March. Similarly, Advanced Train-the-Trainer has been kept on hold as well. 2) CIS-A2K request page[3] currently won't support any offline/onsite Wiki-events such as photowalk, workshop etc.
As of now, this will be applicable till 15 September 2020. To keep the energy of the Wikimedia communities in India, CIS-A2K is planning to support and organise online Wiki-events (remote participation, where no physical presence is required), we'll get back to you with further details. Thank you for your understanding and co-operation. For any question, please reply in this thread or email tito+wetoget...@cis-india.org Stay safe. With regards and good wishes, T -------------------------------------- Some other reading: A few Wikimedians have started and working on a WikiProject remote event participation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation You may have a look. Similarly, a Coronavirus tech handbook is being prepared (crowdsourced) as well for remote working and events: https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/remote Please follow Indian Government: Ministry of Health of Family Welfare (MOHFW) helpline and support advice: http://www.mohfw.gov.in/, MOHFW consolidated travel guidelines: http://www.mohfw .gov.in/ConsolidatedTraveladvisoryUpdated11032020.pdf Mass gathering advisory: http://www.mohfw.gov.in/advisoryformassgathering.pdf Coronavirus safety advice by WHO: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters References [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2020-March/014530.html [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Requests Thanks Tito Dutta
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