Hello Blessing
Thanks for your email. As soon as we have the approval, I will contact Andrew
(our government contact) and also copy you, Isla and Dumisani on the messages.
Kind regards
Lourie
>________________________________
> From: Blessing Chataira <bless...@itoca.org>
>To: 'Lourie Pieterse' <louriepiete...@yahoo.com>; 'WikimediaZA'
><wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org>
>Cc: 'Isla Haddow-Flood' <isl...@africacentre.net>
>Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 12:29 PM
>Subject: RE: [Wikimedia ZA] Wiki Loves Monuments proposal
>
>
>Hie Lourie
>
>This looks fine and I hope the board gives feedback soon.
>
>I am available in Gauteng for meetings and if Isla is willing to meet first
>then I can also go with her to meet the phone companies.
>
>Kind Regards
>Blessing
>
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>From:wikimediaza-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
>[mailto:wikimediaza-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Lourie Pieterse
>Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 9:15 PM
>To: WikimediaZA
>Cc: Isla Haddow-Flood
>Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wiki Loves Monuments proposal
>
>Hello everyone
>
>Unfortunately it took us much longer to get back to you than expected. We
>(or at least me) didn't know that Isla was on holiday, so there was some sort
>of confusion along the away. Maarten and me wrote a little report on our
>meeting with the government heritage officials last week, which can be found
>here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/WLMMeeting1.
>We essentially just want to know if the WMZA board approve of this idea and
>whether we can go forward with discussions regarding it with government. We
>would appreciate any comments as soon as possible, because we need to arrange
>the next meetings and so forth.
>
>As mentioned in the report; we have their full support and they committed to a
>formal partnership with Wikimedia ZA should this proposal get approved by the
>board. If there is any further questions, feel free to ask. Anyone else is
>also more than welcome to comment regarding this idea of ours. Thanks.
>
>Kind regards
>Lourie
>
>
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