Hello Douglas

Thanks for letting us all know. This sounds very exciting!! 

Responding to what Asaf said … perhaps an explanation is required of what he meant. In the Wikimedia world you have to be endorsed by the AffCom committee (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee) to call yourself a Usergroup - the Cameroon group has just completed the process. 

When you are a group of enthusiastic volunteers working towards this recognition, groups like yours call themselves Planning Wikimedia Uganda Usergroup, or similar. This is the norm. So I guess that is why he is surprised at the words you used. 

Asaf, you can see the work that the Uganda Volunteer group has done on Wiki Loves Africa over the last 3 years if you look here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa - 

The team that typically takes part can be seen here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Local_events#Uganda

Douglas can point you to the other outreach work they have done. 

warmest

Isla

On 07 Jul 2017, at 11:56 PM, Douglas Ssebaggala <erunayo@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Wikimedians,

Especially from Africa, apologies that this has come in, really really late, nevertheless, thought the list can know about the above OpenStreetMap Conference happening in the next few hours in Kampala. Details at

http://sotmafrica.org

It's a pity that we do not have a session about Wikipedia/Wikimedia Projects, however, Wikimedia Usergroup members in Uganda and other African countries are strongly involved in the organisation of the above conference, and this is just a start, we highly hope to have more involvement of Wikimedia in the future events.

Thanks. 

Ssebaggala Douglas

Executive Director (MapUganda)

OpenStreetMap Uganda

Building a network of Mappers in Uganda, creating capacity, Innovation and opendata.

Skype: douglo.m | Twitter: @mapuganda  @douglaseru | Mob: +256 772 422524

Hive Colab, 4th Floor  Kanjokya House, Plot 90, Kanjokya Street,  Kampala - Uganda

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