Hi Asaf, Nice to know. Is there any plan of this team to come Bangladesh? We are very happy if the team able to come & meet with our Wikimedians.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear Indian Wikimedians, > > I pleased to announce a group from the Wikimedia Foundation will be > visiting India next week, staying in Bangalore from Feb 10th through Feb > 16th. > > The group includes: > 1. Garfield Byrd (WMF's Chief of Finance and Administration) > 2. Anasuya Sengupta (WMF's Senior Director of Grantmaking) > 3. Sydney Poore (volunteer member of the Funds Dissemination Committee > [FDC]) > and will be joined in India by WMF Trustee Bishakha Datta. > > (I had also been intending to come, but am prevented this time around due > to unexpected issues securing a travelling visa to India.) > > WMF staff have been visiting partner organizations and communities over > the past few months, to learn more about their context, achievements and > challenges. More recently, FDC members have been joining them in this > effort. Currently, WMF staff and FDC members are visiting Germany. > > One purpose of this visit is to conduct working meetings with the > Foundation's two major partners and grantees in India: the Wikimedia India > (WMIN) chapter and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), operating the > Access To Knowledge (A2K) programme. > > Additionally, we would like to meet as many Wikimedians as we can, via a > community meetup in Bangalore, and to make ourselves available over digital > channels (at least taking advantage of being in the same timezone) to > community members across India, via open group discussions over IRC. We > are also open to discussion with any interested smaller groups or > individuals, over Skype, Hangout, or telephone, time permitting. > > We have put up a rough agenda page up on Meta: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_India_Visit_Feb_2014 > > Please feel free to sign up for the meetup or the conversations, and to > raise topics you would like to see addressed, on the talk page. > > We greatly regret that logistical issues are preventing us from visiting > other communities in person this time around, and from attending the Telugu > community's 10th anniversary celebrations in Vijayawada. > > Cheers, > > Asaf Bartov > -- > Asaf Bartov > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Administrator | Bangla Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive> Social Media Interaction Expert & Assignment Reporter | The Daily Prothom-Alo <http://www.prothom-alo.com> Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Foundation Network <http://www.okfn.org> Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) <http://www.bdosn.org> Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh <http://www.mozillabd.org> fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com
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