Hello David, That makes sense. I'm happy to help with ideas or so. :)
Cheers, Jinal Foflia On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:18 PM, David Richfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately only the international Wikimedia Foundation scholarship > would be open to people traveling from India, and that process is already > complete. The scholarships from Wikimedia South Africa are only for people > traveling from South Africa or possibly SADEC countries if there's a good > rationale. > > On 28 March 2018 at 15:29, Jinal Foflia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello David, >> >> This is great to hear, I'm really excited about the Mapathon happening at >> the conference. It's always awesome to see both these communities working >> together and coming up with something amazing! Thank you for offering the >> scholarship :) I'm based out of India, so it's hard for me making to the >> conference. Would be happy to share ideas and work with folks on OSM >> related sessions. >> >> Cheers, >> Jinal Foflia >> >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 10:41 PM, David Richfield < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thank you for sharing this, Jinal! >>> >>> There is of course a significant overlap between OSM volunteers and >>> Wikimedia people, so every year there is something specifically about OSM >>> at Wikimania, and cartography in the service of Wikimedia projects in >>> general. We also usually organise a mapping party for Wikimania. Once the >>> date is confirmed, I'll also post that on this list. >>> >>> I'm on the Wikimania committee, and we have a limited number of >>> scholarships available to fund South African Open Knowledge >>> volunteers/advocates to attend Wikimania, and this can fund your travel, >>> registration fees and accommodation. Check out >>> http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Wikimania_2018_Scholarship_Applications if >>> you're interested and you have something to bring to the conference. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> David Richfield >>> >>> On 20 March 2018 at 08:03, Jinal Foflia <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everyone, >>>> >>>> Wanted to share about the Wikimania 2018 [1] happening in Cape Town, >>>> South Africa on July 18-22, 2018, it's the annual international conference >>>> that celebrates Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects. Find out >>>> more details about the conference and the previous conference here - >>>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jinalfoflia/diary/43529 >>>> >>>> It’ll be great if the South Africa/Cape Town OSM communities would want >>>> to participate, conduct BoF sessions or present lightning talks. >>>> OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia communities have a lot in common, let's meet, >>>> collaborate and make the most of this opportunity! >>>> >>>> [1] - https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Jinal Foflia >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-ZA mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-ZA mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ZA mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za >> >> > > > -- > David Richfield > Nabburgerstraße 19, 81737 München > +49 176 72663368 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za > >
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