Re: [Wikimania-l] UEFA Euro 2016

2016-06-23 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
Well, this Sunday night is the Copa América Centenario final too. Argentina vs. Chile. I don't know if it will be possible to watch the match somewhere in Esino, considering it will be very late in the night (2.00 am if I'm not wrong, technically on Monday). El jun 22, 2016 7:40 PM, "Orsolya

Re: [Wikimania-l] Coming up with a new process for Wikimania selection

2015-10-04 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
I'm simply baffled in the way the Committee has just decided to explicitly reduce the participation from the so-called Global South, specially when we are supposed to promote the communities in those countries. Although I agree and understand that places with bigger communities should host

Re: [Wikimania-l] Fwd: Wikimania Scholarship

2015-07-31 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
is for him to say not for you to decide. Regards Jonathan On 31 Jul 2015, at 05:59, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Osmar Valdebenito, No offense was intended :-(. For prominent communities that may be true, but could you check list of users who got scholarship from Malayalam

Re: [Wikimania-l] Fwd: Wikimania Scholarship

2015-07-31 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
in Gerard's private emails to you is for him to say not for you to decide. Regards Jonathan On 31 Jul 2015, at 05:59, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Osmar Valdebenito, No offense was intended :-(. For prominent communities that may be true, but could you check list of users who

Re: [Wikimania-l] Fwd: Wikimania Scholarship

2015-07-30 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
Sorry, but when I read No regular Wikimedian get any scholarship, I stopped reading. It is not only a lie, but also very unfair to all the extremely great Wikimedians that attended and made great contributions in Wikimania, and also the volunteers that have helped now and in the past reviewing and

Re: [Wikimania-l] WMHK Videos?

2013-08-28 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
Hi Deryck. Can we upload some of the videos to Commons in the meantime? The streaming doesn't say how the videos are licensed so we can't use them (or part of them) yet. *Osmar Valdebenito G.* Director Ejecutivo A. C. Wikimedia Argentina 2013/8/28 Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com All

Re: [Wikimania-l] UK budget plan for 2014 Wikimania bid

2012-08-26 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
Of course, this IS something the whole community can and should discuss. It is about the future of Wikimania as a volunteer-driven event. WM-UK spending £40,000 is unfair for other future bids (did you know that most of the chapters have less than £40,000 for the whole annual budget?) and a