FYI
WIkimania 2020 Scholarships are open till 17th March 2020
This year's event will happen in Bangkok, Thailand
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From: Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 5:24 AM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Scholarship for 2020 Wikimania now open
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Wikimania is fast approaching, this year it'll be held in Bangkok and as
always the Wikimedia Foundation has a limited number of opportunities to
assist people to attend. There are two types of scholarships the first
being a full scholarship which covers, travel, accommodation, and
registration, the second a partial scholarship that covers accommodation
and registration.
This year for the first time East, South East Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) as
collaboration between the region we'll be your host for Wikimania. The
region has placed a high importance on collaboration and knowledge sharing
this years Wikimania program will reflect that. Our theme is;
*Power of Diverse Collaboration*
*Sharing knowledge brings people together*
How does this impact on scholarship? ESEAP is looking for people who are
prepared to share their knowledge to help develop potential future
leaders. We'll be looking for two broad areas of contributions, from those
who have successfully developed programs, and those newer contributors who
want to develop their skills to do more but have never been to a Wikimania
to broaden their support networks.
As you apply please agree to share your details with the local affiliate
should they also have scholarships available. When answering questions if
you have urls to reports, dashboards, and events please provide them.
Rather than writing lots of words again let your past recordings speak.
On behalf of the ESEAP community, and the Scholarship committee we look
forward to seeing you in Bangkok in August.
--
Gnangarra
Wikimania Scholarship committee Co-chair
*Power of Diverse Collaboration*
*Sharing knowledge brings people together*
Wikimania Bangkok 2020
August 5 to 9
hosted by ESEAP
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FYI
Dear Strategy Liaisons and Affiliate Representatives,
The launch of our final round of community conversation is finally here! On
behalf of the Core Team, I am excited to have the opportunity to invite you
to take part.
tl;dr: The recommendations have been published! Please take time over the
next five weeks to review and help us understand how your organization and
community would be impacted.
What Does This Mean?
The core recommendations document [1] has now been published on Meta in
Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. This is
the result of more than a year of dedicated work by our working groups, and
we are pleased to share the evolution of their work for your final
consideration.
In addition to the recommendations text, you can read through key documents
such as Principles [2], Process [3], and the Writer’s Reflections [4],
which lend important context to this work and highlight the ways that the
recommendations are conceptually interlinked.
We also have a brief Narrative of Change [5] available in the above
languages, plus Farsi, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan which
offers a summary introduction to the recommendations material.
How Is My Input Reflected In This Work?
Community input played an important role in the drafting of these
recommendations. The core recommendations document [1] reflects this and
cites community input throughout in footnotes.
I also encourage you to take a look at our community input summaries [6].
These texts show a further analysis of how all of the ideas you shared last
year through online conversations, affiliate meetings, and strategy salons
connect to recommendations. Many of the community notes and reports not
footnoted in the core recommendations document are referenced here as
evidence of the incredible convergence of ideas that have brought us this
far.
What Happens Now?
Affiliates, online communities, and other stakeholders have the next five
weeks to discuss and share feedback on these recommendations. In
particular, we’re hoping to better understand how you think they would
impact our movement - what benefits and opportunities do you foresee for
your affiliate, and why? What challenges or barriers would they pose for
you? Your input at this stage is vital, and we’d like to warmly invite you
to participate in this final discussion period.
To do this, many affiliate organizations are already working closely with
one of our contracted Strategy Liaisons [7], but for others interested in
hosting these discussions, please connect with me directly so that I can be
sure your input is collected and used.
After this five week period, the Core Team will publish a summary report of
input from across affiliates, online communities, and other stakeholders
for public review before the recommendations are finalized. You can view
our updated timeline here [8] as well as an updated FAQ section [9] that
addresses topics like the goal of this current period, the various
components of the draft recommendations, and what’s next in more detail.
Finally, I’d like to share that I will be on parental leave for February
and March, but Diane Ranville (dranville-ctr(a)wikimedia.org) as well as
other members of the Core Team will be responsive to you until I return.
Thank you again for taking the time to join us in community conversations,
and I look forward to receiving your input. Happy reading!
Warmly,
Kelsi
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
[8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Frequen…
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Frequen…
--
*Regards*
*Justice Okai-Allotey*
*Mobile: +*233 (054) 039 4970* Skype: *okai_allotey
|Avenger - Urithi Labs <https://www.facebook.com/urithimedia/>|
|Social Media Lead - Wikimedia Ghana User Group
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaGhanaUG/>|
|Linkedin: Justice Okai-Allotey
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-okai-allotey-306b6354?trk=hp-identity-n…>
| Facebook: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.facebook.com/wyzzlewany> |
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congrats Justice & Sadat
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> Hi all,
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> FYI
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> From: Gregory Varnum <gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2019, 19:58
> Subject: [MoveCom] Announcing the inaugural members of our new
> Communications Committee
> To: Movement communications group mailing list <
> movecom(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hello!
>
> I am thrilled to announce the inaugural members of the new Wikimedia
> Foundation Communications Committee have been selected. These eleven
> community members were chosen from an impressive group of applicants. We
> carefully reviewed each candidate, and made our final selections based in
> part on the overall diversity and skillset of the group as a whole.
>
> Please join me in congratulating our inaugural members:
>
> 1. Fawaz Tairou (User:Fawaz.tairou) - Benin
> 2. Anne Clin (User:Risker) - Canada
> 3. Justice Okai-Allotey (User:Owula kpakpo) - Ghana
> 4. Paulina Lordméndez (User:Paulina Lordméndez) - Mexico
> 5. Maiken Hagemeister (User:Maiken Hagemeister (WMDE)) - Germany
> 6. Itzik Edri (User:Itzike) - Israel
> 7. Mohammed Sadat Abdulai (User:Masssly) - Ghana
> 8. Nahid Sultan (User:NahidSultan) - Bangladesh
> 9. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (User:KCVelaga) - India
> 10. Habib Mhenni (User:Dyolf77) - Tunisia
> 11. Virginia Díez (User:Virginia Díez (WMES)) - Spain
>
> The inaugural committee will begin working with the Wikimedia Foundation
> Communications department in the coming months to develop key goals and
> processes toward better collaboration between the department and community
> leaders. We are hopeful and excited that this group will open new avenues
> for discussion, sharing and highlighting the work of the movement. You can
> find out more about the committee, its progress, and how to engage directly
> with members via their Meta-Wiki page:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComCom.
>
> We also want to encourage folks interested in movement communications to
> join the Movement communications group (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MoveCom), which has replaced the space for
> large group discussion of movement communications served by the previous
> iteration of this committee.
>
> Again, congratulations to our inaugural members and thank you to everyone
> who showed interest in joining!
>
> -greg
>
> --
>
> Gregory Varnum (pronouns - he/his/him)
>
> Communications Strategist
>
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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>
Hi all,
FYI
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From: Gregory Varnum <gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2019, 19:58
Subject: [MoveCom] Announcing the inaugural members of our new
Communications Committee
To: Movement communications group mailing list <movecom(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello!
I am thrilled to announce the inaugural members of the new Wikimedia
Foundation Communications Committee have been selected. These eleven
community members were chosen from an impressive group of applicants. We
carefully reviewed each candidate, and made our final selections based in
part on the overall diversity and skillset of the group as a whole.
Please join me in congratulating our inaugural members:
1. Fawaz Tairou (User:Fawaz.tairou) - Benin
2. Anne Clin (User:Risker) - Canada
3. Justice Okai-Allotey (User:Owula kpakpo) - Ghana
4. Paulina Lordméndez (User:Paulina Lordméndez) - Mexico
5. Maiken Hagemeister (User:Maiken Hagemeister (WMDE)) - Germany
6. Itzik Edri (User:Itzike) - Israel
7. Mohammed Sadat Abdulai (User:Masssly) - Ghana
8. Nahid Sultan (User:NahidSultan) - Bangladesh
9. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (User:KCVelaga) - India
10. Habib Mhenni (User:Dyolf77) - Tunisia
11. Virginia Díez (User:Virginia Díez (WMES)) - Spain
The inaugural committee will begin working with the Wikimedia Foundation
Communications department in the coming months to develop key goals and
processes toward better collaboration between the department and community
leaders. We are hopeful and excited that this group will open new avenues
for discussion, sharing and highlighting the work of the movement. You can
find out more about the committee, its progress, and how to engage directly
with members via their Meta-Wiki page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComCom.
We also want to encourage folks interested in movement communications to
join the Movement communications group (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MoveCom), which has replaced the space for
large group discussion of movement communications served by the previous
iteration of this committee.
Again, congratulations to our inaugural members and thank you to everyone
who showed interest in joining!
-greg
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Gregory Varnum (pronouns - he/his/him)
Communications Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/movecom
FYI
Hello!
I am thrilled to announce the inaugural members of the new Wikimedia
Foundation Communications Committee have been selected. These eleven
community members were chosen from an impressive group of applicants. We
carefully reviewed each candidate, and made our final selections based in
part on the overall diversity and skillset of the group as a whole.
Please join me in congratulating our inaugural members:
1. Fawaz TAIROU (User:fawaz.tairou) - Benin
2. Anne Clin (User:Risker) - Canada
3. Justice Okai-Allotey (User:Owula kpakpo) - Ghana
4. Paulina Lordméndez (User:Paulina Lordméndez) - Mexico
5. Jan Apel (User:Jan Apel (WMDE)) - Germany
6. Itzik Edri (User:Itzike) - Israel
7. Mohammed Sadat Abdulai (User:Masssly) - Ghana
8. Nahid Sultan (User:NahidSultan) - Bangladesh
9. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (User:KCVelaga) - India
10. Habib Mhenni (User:Dyolf77) - Tunisia
11. Virginia Díez (User:Virginia Díez (WMES)) - Spain
The inaugural committee will begin working with the Wikimedia Foundation
Communications department in the coming months to develop key goals and
processes toward better collaboration between the department and community
leaders. We are hopeful and excited that this group will open new avenues
for discussion, sharing and highlighting the work of the movement. You can
find out more about the committee, its progress, and how to engage directly
with members via their Meta-Wiki page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComCom.
We also want to encourage folks interested in movement communications to
join the Movement communications group (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MoveCom), which has replaced the space for
large group discussion of movement communications served by the previous
iteration of this committee.
Again, congratulations to our inaugural members and thank you to everyone
who showed interest in joining!
-greg
--
*Regards*
*Justice Okai-Allotey*
*Mobile: +*233 (054) 039 4970* Skype: *okai_allotey
|Avenger - Urithi Labs <https://www.facebook.com/urithimedia/>|
|Social Media Lead - Wikimedia Ghana User Group
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaGhanaUG/>|
|Linkedin: Justice Okai-Allotey
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-okai-allotey-306b6354?trk=hp-identity-n…>
| Facebook: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.facebook.com/wyzzlewany> |
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Hi,
FYI.
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From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 6:37 PM
Subject: [African Wikimedians] WikiForHumanRights: Help us Organize the
Campaign, November 15-January 30
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia &
GLAM collaboration [Public] <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Mailing list for
African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia &
Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimania 2019 <
wikimania19(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: Luisina Ferrante <educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
Hello all, and apologies for crossposting!
I hope you are doing well!
As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]:
the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand
the availability of knowledge about human rights online.
As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign
from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human
rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the
campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN
Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More
information about the campaign is also available here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of
several ways:
Help us build the list!
-
We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in
human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further
improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and
geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see
instructions at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_t…
Organize an online or offline event!
We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia
to:
-
Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about
hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign
-
Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or
partners! To learn more, check out the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon
Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day!
Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide
audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics)
soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign.
-
Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public
can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading
the word.
-
Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using
#WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we
increase the communication to the public on 10 December
If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space
#human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
or by emailing Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org and Luisina Ferrante <
educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize
in the Organize sections linked above!
Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To
watch for those materials, add
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta
watchlist.
Have questions?
If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next
Tuesday
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanright…>,
or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
.
Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign!
Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation
Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-righ…
--
Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
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*Justice Okai-Allotey*
*Mobile: +*233 (054) 039 4970* Skype: *okai_allotey
|Avenger - Urithi Labs <https://www.facebook.com/urithimedia/>|
|Social Media Lead - Wikimedia Ghana User Group
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaGhanaUG/>|
|Linkedin: Justice Okai-Allotey
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-okai-allotey-306b6354?trk=hp-identity-n…>
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|Website: wyzzlewany.wordpress.com|
Hello,
I am participating in a group discussing Wikimedia movement communications
which I think you may be interested in joining.
The Wikimedia movement communications group is an opportunity for members
of the Wikimedia community to discuss topics related to movement
communications. Topics can be brought up by any members of the group,
including staff from the Wikimedia Foundation Communications department.
Conversations in the group may range from brainstorming communications
opportunities to advance the movement to chatting about a problem faced by
a specific community to coordinating communications efforts on major events.
The group is open to anyone in the Wikimedia community working on
communications for Wikimedia activities or communities.
For more information or to join, visit the group's Meta-Wiki page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MoveCom
--
*Regards*
*Justice Okai-Allotey*
*Mobile: +*233 (054) 039 4970* Skype: *okai_allotey
|Avenger - Urithi Labs <https://www.facebook.com/urithimedia/>|
|Social Media Lead - Wikimedia Ghana User Group
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaGhanaUG/>|
|Linkedin: Justice Okai-Allotey
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-okai-allotey-306b6354?trk=hp-identity-n…>
| Facebook: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.facebook.com/wyzzlewany> |
Twitter: @Owula_Kpakpo <https://twitter.com/Owula_Kpakpo> |
|Website: wyzzlewany.wordpress.com|
FYI, Jaward or anyone available for a talk or session?
Best,
-Enock
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De : Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459(a)gmail.com>
Date: jeu. 5 sept. 2019 à 17:44
Subject: Celebrate Software Freedom Day in Accra, Bolga or Sunyani
To: linuxaccra <linuxaccra(a)yahoogroups.com>
FOSS Greetings!
The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE)[1],
Linux Accra Users Group (LAUG)[2] and Internet Society Ghana Chapter (ISOC
Ghana)[3] are pleased to request your partnership and sponsorship for this
year’s Software Freedom Day event in Ghana scheduled for Saturday September
21, 2019 on the theme, “Innovation, AI & Open Source Technologies”.
Software Freedom Day (SFD)[4] is an annual global grassroots effort to
educate the public on the virtues of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
and also to encourage its use. SFD is expected to attract about 1000
participants physically and virtually via online platforms.
This year’s event will be hosted in 3 locations Accra
<https://sfdaccra19.eventbrite.com>, Bolgatanga
<https://sfdbolga19.eventbrite.com> and Sunyani
<https://sfdsunyani19.eventbrite.com> and will include hands-on training,
plenary, breakout sessions and workshops, convening in-person and virtual
participants from across the continent and global stakeholders and
influencers.
Participants will include government leadership, civil servants, private
enterprises, IT organizations, researchers,entrepreneurs, innovators and
students.
Activities for the celebration include:
-
Creating awareness about the potential of open source technology for
education, business and national development
-
Discussions on prospects of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,
Cryptocurrency for Ghana
-
Teaching participants to install various Linux distributions
-
Exhibiting open source projects and innovations
-
Geospatial technology, UAVs (drones), cyber security, photography and
many more
Kindly help share! if you would like to support kindly reach out to
info(a)linuxaccra.org.
1.
https://www.aiti-kace.com.gh/
2.
https://www.linuxaccra.org/
3.
https://isoc.gh/
4.
https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
FOSS Regards,
SFD 19 Team
