[Foundation-l] Polish Wikimedia Chapter obtained tax-deducible status

Tue Apr 17 23:40:07 UTC 2007

One more !

Ant

Delphine Ménard wrote:
> Wohooooo!
> 
> Congrats.
> 
> Delphine
> 
> On 4/16/07, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to announce that:
>>
>> Polish Wikimedia Chapter has just obtained the tax-deducible status,
>> which we hope will increase our income substantially.
>>
>> There is also an occasion to announce what we are actually doing:
>>
>> The DVD with Polish edition of Wikipedia is going to be published soon
>> (hopefully before the end of April). It was done in cooperation with
>> Helion Publishing House.
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polska_Wikipedia_na_DVD_%28z_Helionem%29/en
>>
>> Wikimedia Polska Conference 2007 will take place on May 1-3 in Białowieża:
>>
>> http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Konferencja_Wikimedia_Polska_2007/en
>>
>> Till now 51 people declared to join the conference – both active
>> Wikimedians as well as people from similar non-Wikimedia projects. We
>> expect to have 80-100 participants, and 15 lectures and discussion
>> panels.
>>
>> Although the official language of the conference is Polish, we invite
>> all the people interested to join. The cost of conference is really
>> cheap – just 150 zł (around 40 EUR per person,  accommodation and food
>> included), and there are several excursions to the neighboring
>> museums, and sightseeing of the largest existing wild forest in EU, as
>> well as bonfire with free beer and sausages. (sponsored by local
>> restaurant).
>>
>> On 21-22 April 2007 we will have a free stand during "PC tuning
>> affairs" in Wrocław, which is a kind of Mecca of Polish nerds and
>> hackers (in good meaning of this word).
>>
>> We have started to organize an advertising of Wikimedia Projects by
>> printing and distributing bookmarks and posters.
>>
>> http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Koncepcje_promocyjne/Zak%C5%82adki
>>
>> We have started cooperation with Metalmind Productions – a company,
>> which specialize in promotion and issuing CD's of niche Polish music
>> bands.
>>
>> http://www.metalmind.pl/
>>
>> We have also joined a "Coalition for Open Standards":
>>
>> http://www.standardy.org/
>>
>> an organization trying to persuade Polish government to use open
>> electronic standards for exchange of official documents and during
>> contacts with general public.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
>> http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek
>> http://www.poli.toya.net.pl
>> http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html
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