Hi Asaf,
Sorry for bothering you by e-mail but I am not sure if this is a question up to you (& the foundation) or up to the greek wikimedian community as well: -Would you be interested in having a meeting with the General Secretary of the Greek Ministry of Education (Athanassios Kyriazis) in the scope of public relations, cooperation, or lobbying (concerning freedom of panorama, public domain issues etc)?
I am currently working for the Greek Ministry of education and I can make a first contact with his office next week to see whether he would be interested as well. I have to know in advance if you/we are interested because i will have to be sure before making any contact with his office.
And (if no-one else volunteers for the task) I am eager to help you prepare the meeting by opening a page in greek wikipedia with potential proposals concerning the ministry and making a brief report in english for you. In case you feel that the community should be informed before commiting in seeing him, we will address the issue as soon as possible.
+If you need any arrangements about your staying in Athens, there is a wikipedian that we can contact in order to help you. :)
sincerely
Evgenia (user: Αχρήστης)
2013/3/1 Glavkos Xaon glavkos@gmail.com
Hi Asaf, we are excited that we are going finally to meet you in Athens in the mid of April. I just created a page on ELWP which we can use to coordinate our meeting. Here it is: http://bit.ly/XI9GPa
All the best, Nikos Papadimoulis , aka Glavkos2013/3/1 Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org
Thanks, everyone!
It's settled, then! :) I'll be booking my flights in the next couple of days and will let you know as soon as I've made them. The plan is to arrive on the 11th and leave on the 15th or 16th. Let's start a page to plan this together. Would a page on Meta be okay? If you prefer, I'm happy to do this on ELWP as well -- just send me a link.
I look forward to seeing you! :)
A.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Focal Point focalpointx@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Asaf,
After discussion in the Agora from 23 until 27 Feb, there are 5 positive answers from registered members of the wikipedia commnity (FocalPoint, Ttzavaras, Pyraechmes, Glavkos, geraki), of which one (Pyraehmes) finds it difficult to attend because of distance and other obligations. Αχρήστης initiated the discussion, and I suppose that she will also answer positively.
Discussion up to now concerning organization of events is for: *a wikipedians informal meeting *a one-day conference (space is secured) *or both
Regards, FocalPoint
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Glavkos Xaon glavkos@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, I surely can arrange a leave to visit Athens for this meeting. I can be there for the weekend and probably earlier (on 11th/12th of April). Certainly I am also willing to do what it takes to support the meeting and help in organizing the needed details before and throughout the event(s).
All the best, Nikos Papadimoulis2013/2/28 Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org
That works for me. I could arrive on the 10th/11th, and we can set up meeting before, during and just after the weekend, as appropriate. Then I can leave for Milan on the 16th.
I'd like a couple more people to confirm that this would work for the community, and then I can go ahead with the arrangements and we can take our time planning how to make the best of my visit.
Thanks,
A.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Tassos Tzavaras < tzavarastassos@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everybody. I would suggest the date of 13-14th April, since the 27 - 28 is the beginning of Easter period in Greece and possibly many of us will be absent on Easter vacations (including myself). We look forward to see you in Greece and have a face to face conversation for our Community here. Thanks in advance,
Tassos Tzavaras
Hi, folks.
The answer is _yes_, I can make those dates, but I need to know by Friday if possible, as we're making arrangements for Milan, and I need to know how to book my flights there.
I'm happy to answer any questions, of course, and to plan the particulars of my visit with you.
Thanks,
AsafOn Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Konstantinos Stampoulis < geraki@geraki.gr> wrote:
> Hello Asaf. > > To keep you informed, there is a conversation about your visit in > Greece, in Wikipedia's Agora (Village Pump): http://goo.gl/k9xRo > So, it is not that we are not interested for your visit, but we > still talk if a conference for the general audience should be organised on > the occasion or just do some community meetings. > > A question I have: Since you will be in Italy at 18-21 April, you > must extend your trip for some days to be in Greece for at least a weekend. > Can you extend it for enough days to be here at 13-14th or 27-28th of > April? Any community meeting should be on a weekend. > > I'm posting this mail to WikiEL mailing list (I think you are > already a member) so that it will be more open, and we can link to your > mails. > I suggest that all cc'd users subscribe to it. > > Konstantinos Stampoulis > geraki@geraki.gr > http://www.geraki.gr > > > > 2013/2/20 Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org > >> Hi, folks. >> >> I haven't heard back from you in a while. What are your current >> thoughts about my proposed visit to Greece? >> >> As a reminder, I was thinking of visiting for the following goals >> and activities: >> >> 1. to meet with as many of you as possible and learn from you >> about the state of the community, your personal projects and plans, the >> obstacles you face. >> >> 2. to do one or more development workshops for the community in >> Greece -- i.e. discussion and (two-way!) experience sharing toward growing >> the Wikimedia community and its reach in Greece. We could discuss whatever >> problems or challenges you feel would be most valuable to work on. Some >> examples might be: representation (who gets to speak for Wikipedia in >> Greece? How?); creating partnerships (how? when? with whom?); how to live >> with (and without?) community conflict, etc. >> (I have extensive program experience in the movement, including as >> a former board member of a local chapter, as well as experience with >> volunteer recruitment and management outside the movement, from other >> projects I've been involved with as a volunteer over the years.) >> >> 3. to help your group secure meetings with potential partners, in >> case an official representative of the Foundation, or just "a visitor from >> the US", would help get a first meeting with people like university >> rectors, mayors, etc. >> >> 4. if helpful, do public speaking (in English, unfortunately) >> about Wikipedia in general public occasions or at universities. In >> general, I think it's better for local volunteers to do public speaking, >> but again, if an international guest would bring a larger audience or >> something, I'm happy to help. We can also think about a joint presentation >> -- one of you speaking in Greek about the Greek community and about >> Wikipedia particulars, and I giving a broader view of the movement, >> international activities, and maybe one or two of the sister projects. >> >> All of this is just an outline of what a visit _can_ be. What it >> _would_ be really depends on planning work we'd need to put into this (i.e. >> actually securing meetings, lectures, picking dates, etc.), and most of >> that work would best be done by Greek-speaking locals... So it's really up >> to you. >> >> Concretely, I am traveling to Milan, Italy for the Wikimedia >> Conference 2013 in mid-April, and would be able to come to Greece >> before/after it, _but if so_, we need to start making arrangements for this >> very soon. If you'd like me to visit but can't spare the time to prepare, >> or just want it to be later, that's fine, and I can make a separate trip to >> Greece later in the year. >> >> If, in the meantime, you have come to the conclusion a visit >> would not be very useful or appropriate now, that's fine too, and please >> don't hesitate to say so if that's the case. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Asaf >> >
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