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Wed Jun 25 11:05:36 UTC 2014

Hi Dimi,

Thanks for the background - sounds like an excellent event! Best of luck :)

Speak soon,

Stevie

On 25 June 2014 08:39, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2014-06-24 17:41 GMT+02:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>:
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>> What's the Belgrade event? Is that for welcoming new people to the fold?
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> Hi Stevie,
>
> Yes, it is about getting new volunteers/user-groups/activists on board.
> Basically a networking and workshop thing.
>
> The idea is to reach out to groups of volunteers/activits in countries
> which haven't been very present on the EU level so far.
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> At the most basic level this means organising a two-day meet-up and
> telling people how they can become active and help out with things that
> interest them. It would be best to have even more organisations on board
> and then everyone can cover a topic of expertise. For instance, if you're
> interested in copyright reform, you talk to Wikimedia and if you're
> interested in data protection, you talk to EDRi and so forth.
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> EDRi has been granted a small amount of money from the WebWeWant
> Foundation, [1] so I am helping them run a pilot in Belgrade and invovling
> Wikimedia Srbija in it.
>
> Dimi
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> [1]http://107.170.93.53/projects/projects/view/103
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