We have an official telegram group for this.
https://t.me/wikimania_2020 .
And thanks Amir Aharoni for creating it.
Regards,
*Ranjith Siji*
Wikimedians of Kerala User Group
wikimediakerala.in
Chat Google Talk: ranjith.sajeev,
https://t.me/ranjithsiji,
https://riot.im/app/#/user/@ranjithsiji:matrix.org
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 7:13 PM Iolanda Pensa <iolanda(a)pensa.it> wrote:
Wikimedians!
The Wikimania Steering Committee is delighted to announce our
recommendation for Wikimania 2020 to take place in Bangkok, Thailand, as a
collaboration among chapters in the region. This is a new model we are
exploring with a team of chapters and user groups from the East Southeast
Asia and Pacific (ESEAP) region. We are looking forward to assist with
organising one of the events we use as a platform to bring the sum of all
notable and verifiable knowledge to the world and – most importantly –
discuss, develop and dedicate ourselves to all things Wikimedia.
The Wikimedians in Thailand user group has been around since 2008 and
recently applied for chapter status. In addition to this, ESEAP recently
held a regional conference where they successfully emerged as a working
cooperative. We are grateful for the continued work these combined teams
are putting in, making this a genuine coalition in the ESEAP region.
We would like to thank the Wikimedians from Perth, Bali and Armenia, who
offered to host Wikimania. Organising Wikimania is hard work, and for this
we are grateful and appreciate anyone willing to do so. As always, we feel
privileged being part of a movement where people competently step up to
make this a successful convening. We believe that bringing together an
ESEAP coalition to host the event will provide representation the region
deserves. We believe they will do a great job.
The Wikimania decision process has been changing for some time and we will
be taking steps towards more transparent and sustainable processes. Bangkok
was not one of the original proposals received, but the committee felt this
location represented an excellent opportunity to make Wikimania a regional
and collaborative effort. The city was deemed a good location due to a
number of factors: visa-friendly, travel-wise accessible, reasonably priced
lodgings, plenty of universities and GLAM institutions are some of the
characteristics that make this city a strategic location to welcome a large
cohort and continue to expand our movement.
We are also happy that Joël Letang (event team manager at Wikimedia
Foundation) and Isabel Cueva (events program manager at Wikimedia
Foundation) will contribute to the organisation of the event. You can meet
Joël and Isabel this August in Stockholm at Wikimania 2019.
We would like to congratulate and thank the ESEAP coalition team for the
time and effort dedicated in making Wikimania 2020 a success!
Iolanda Pensa / iopensa on behalf of the Wikimania Committee and the event
team at Wikimedia Foundation
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