Wikimedia & Education enthusiasts,
The Wikipedia & Education User Group is seeking a new host for the EduWiki Conference in light of the recent withdrawal of Wikimedia Rwanda as host (see below). Given the timing considerations, we've decided we will push off the conference until early 2025. But we'd like to start planning now!
If your affiliate is interested in serving as host for the conference, we are currently accepting bids for the conference location. To express your interest, please fill out this form by April 1: https://forms.gle/yXCKkMfwBgd1UKxK6
Ensuring we can secure visas for our diverse community is of top priority for us as conference organizers. So please make sure you've investigated the visa situation in your country, especially for those coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and South and Latin America. Please also ensure your group has the capacity to host an international conference of 100-125 people in (ideally) February/March/April 2025. Since the last two conferences have been hosted by our wonderful friends at the Basque Wikimedians and Wikimedia Serbia, we'll give preference to bids coming from outside of Europe, so we can move the location around.
Again, to express your interest in hosting, please fill out this form by end of day on April 1, 2024: https://forms.gle/yXCKkMfwBgd1UKxK6
LiAnna Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 9:04 AM LiAnna Davis lianna@wikiedu.org wrote:
On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group, I'd like to thank you and the rest of the team at Wikimedia Rwanda for your partnership in starting to plan the EduWiki Conference. We're sorry to not be able to host in in Kigali, but we very much understand your group's reasoning, and wish you all the best in your projects! We hope to host the conference in Kigali at some point in the future.
We'll be opening up a bidding process for a new host for EduWiki Conference, which we now plan to hold in early 2025. I'll send a separate email about that shortly! LiAnna Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 2:37 AM Ndahiro Derrick Alter < ndahiroderric@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Education User Group and WMF Grants Team,
Wikimedia Rwanda wants to inform you about our decision to step down as the main host of the EduWiki Conference 2024.
This decision aligns with our current strategic priorities, which heavily focus on two cross-border projects and eLearning Africa Side Event involvement. These initiatives require significant attention and resources to ensure our organisational growth.
While acknowledging the vital role the EduWiki Conference plays in fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing within the education community, it's best for all parties involved if we dedicate ourselves fully to our existing commitments.
We understand this decision may cause inconvenience and sincerely apologize for any disruption. We appreciate your understanding and hope to host the EduWiki Conference again in the future, once our current projects reach completion. In the meantime, we remain dedicated to actively participating in and supporting the conference's success in any way possible
Ndahiro Derrick Alter Founder & Executive Director *Wikimedia Rwanda* https://wikimedia.rw/ +250789162892
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