[Foundation-l] Re: Polish Chapter founded

Tue Aug 16 18:01:15 UTC 2005

NOT tomorrow. In two days :-)

Ant

Anthere wrote:

> I am glad to hear of this :-)
> 
> Please, do not forget to join tomorrow irc meetup (foundation and 
> existing chapters only). Get on #wikimedia at 18 utc.
> 
> There was a mailing list for all board members of chapters, 
> chapter-l at wikimedia.org, but it appears to 
> have been lost in the server crash the other day (at least, it is 
> unreachable now). We'll probably have to create a new one on a working 
> server. For now, cc mails only.
> Could you by tomorrow gather the email addresses of your 5 board members ?
> 
> Also, consider joining the legal mailing list 
> juriwiki-l at wikimedia.org mailing list (Soufron 
> is its moderator) if not yet on it. You are welcome to suggest lawyers, 
> judges etc... from polish projects to join as well.
> 
> Datrio now, and yourself have an account on wikimedia foundation; If the 
> 3 other board members want one, please ask Angela or myself.
> 
> I'll be glad that Datrio draft a small announcement of the chapter 
> announcement for the foundation website : 
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
> 
> Also, if one or several of you could make a small recap of the meeting, 
> with some nice pictures (and names on it) for Quarto 4, it would be 
> great as well.
> 
> Here we are :-) Special welcome to Jadwiga :-)
> 
> Ant
> 
> 
> 
> If you could
> 
> TOR wrote:
> 
>> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>>
>> I am happy to inform you, that "Stowarzyszenie Wikimedia Polska" 
>> (Wikimedia Polska Association), the Polish Chapter of Wikimedia 
>> Foundation, has been founded this sunday in Krakow, during a larger 
>> two day event called "Wikimedia Polska 2005 Meetup". More than 25 
>> founding members signed the documents.
>>
>> Five Wikimedians were pre-elected to the Board of Wikimedia Polska:
>> - Łukasz Garczewski (pl:User:TOR), as president;
>> - Piotr Cywiński (pl:User:Wulfstan), as vice-president;
>> - Tomasz Ganicz (pl:User:Polimerek), as tresurer;
>> - Dariusz Siedlecki (pl:User:Datrio), as scretary;
>> - Jadwiga Andrychowska-Biegacz (pl:User:Jadwiga), as board member.
>>
>> We still have to get the documents to court and take care of all the 
>> formalities, but we can already see new possibilites opening up before 
>> us.
>>
>> Please visit http://pl.wikimedia.org/ for more information and the 
>> latest news on the Polish Chapter if you want to keep up to date. We 
>> will translate the important pages into English ASAP.
>>
>> If you need to contact the Polish Chapter, feel free to msg me 
>> (TOR_CNR) or Datrio on #wikimedia on IRC, leave a message on our talk 
>> pages on pl.wikimedia.org (or meta) or e-mail us (addresses can be 
>> found on meta).
>>
>> Chapters aside, you can view the photos taken during the meetup on the 
>> Commons under 
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polish_Wikimedia_Meetup_2005
>> or in Polish (if you want to practice our wonderfully difficult 
>> language by reading the cations) under:
>> http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Zlot_Wikimedia_Polska_2005/Zdj%C4%99cia 
>>
>>
>> I'd also like to thank everyone whose work and dedication made both 
>> the Chapter and the meetup possible. Special thanks go to Datrio, 
>> Wulfstan and G-dam for all the hard work they've done on the bylaws 
>> and to Jadwiga for organizing things in Krakow wonderfully.
>>
>> And a big thank you to Tim Shell (who attended the meetup and had to 
>> put up with us Poles for two days :)) for all the patience, kind words 
>> and encouragement!
>>
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