Dear colleagues, Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
1) On Oct.13-14 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_report 2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&department_id=49064 who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt 3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ). 4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of * First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration (http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&department_id=84096), * a large body of regional ministers ** Tatar community affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm ** Education and science http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi * head of regional media holding http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm * head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/ * head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/ 5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier - Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Кулланучы:Тимерхан will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev. 6) I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potential schedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow. regards, farhad -- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan 04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" <[email protected]>: > Hi Farhad, > > I'm very impressed with your successes so far. > > My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by yourself. I > hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating with you so that > you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, and that you > aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due to the > amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities. > > Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference, I think > that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural partners so I > suggest starting with them. > > WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or funding for > GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the wait times > for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so I suggest > that if you want funding from that program that you should request it at > least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it in time for > any particular deadline. > > I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE and I hope that > the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice. > > Best wishes, > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
