I'm also replying to say how awesome this initiative is! I only wish I had the flexibility and disposable income to come over and participate :)
Have a great time with it and kudos for organizing such a cool trip. I need to see if Amtrak would be nearly as accommodating over here in the U.S.! -Matthew On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Erik Zachte <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, what a great initiative! I'm not applying, just want to say this is > another great example of how the world gets to recognize more and more what > we have to offer. And who knows, Polish wikivoyage might benefit too? > > Erik Zachte > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tomasz Ganicz > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 4:19 PM > To: [email protected]; Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Train Wikiexpedition in Poland > > Hi, > > We are about to organize a wikiexpedition devoted to train infrastructure > in Poland. It will be officially co-organised with Polish Railways. Polish > Railways will provide us free tickets for traveling across Poland using any > trains and special passes to legally enter and photograph rail tracks, > workshops, rail yards, cargo railway stations, museums belonging to Polish > Railways etc. In order to get the pass it will be obligatory to undergo a > special basic one-day railtrack safety training which will be provided for > free by Polish Railways employees. Actually we don't know what time it > will happen - for sure during summer, but it is actually to negotiate. It > is possible to have several 2-4 people teams. The requirements will be > just: > *being devoted wiki-photographer ready to submit photos to Wikimedia > Commons under free licences *being highly crazy about railways stuff - i.e. > be ready to travel across Poland using mainly slow, local trains which > stops on every tiny station, sleep in low cost hostels, feed yourself for > 32 PLN a day :-) *You don't need to speak Polish - we can try to organize > a mixed teams fro both training and expeditions. > > If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail... > > > > -- > Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz > http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek > http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ > http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
