Thanks for the communique, looking forward to this year’s edition On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 at 13:41 Bobby Shabangu <bobbyshaba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear friends, > > On behalf of WISCom > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Indaba_Steering_Committee> I'm > pleased to announce that the next WikiIndaba conference will take place in > Agadir, Morocco on 3rd and 4th of November 2023. Following this, the > following year's conference will take place in Cape Town, South Africa on 1st > and 2nd of November 2024. > > Going forward, we have adopted a system of selecting two host countries > which will cover two successive years of the conference. This will ease the > burden and save time of having to deliberate in a long selection process > after each conference. It will also give time for the next host to prepare > themselves for the conference. > > To ensure a fair regional rotation, we were deliberate with our selection > process. We invited only affiliates from Francophone speaking countries to > express interest in hosting the conference. This was followed by a > selection criterion which looked at several factors including the capacity > to host the conference, if there were elections this year in the bidding > country, capacity of the affiliate as well as motivations why the bidder > wanted to host the conference. > > The WikiIndaba conference brings together Wikimedians and open source > enthusiasts from across the African continent and diaspora to share > experiences and learn from each other. We look forward to seeing you at the > next WikiIndaba conference. > > Please be on the lookout for a survey from this year’s host in the next > coming weeks, as they finalise their preparations for the conference. > > Best regards, > > Bobby Shabangu > > (WISCom) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/T7MGUPKTHCVXJ4YFL4XGO6NFAVCZG3JO/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- derrick
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