FYI
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Iolanda Pensa <iolanda(a)pensa.it>
Date: Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 7:13 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand
To: Wikimania <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Wikimania Steering Committee <wikimania-com(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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
_______________________________________________
Wikimania-l mailing list
Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
--
Kartik Mistry | કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી
kartikm.wordpress.com