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(a)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 Glavkos
2013/3/1 Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)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(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>
>> 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(a)gmail.com>wrote;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 Papadimoulis
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/2/28 Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)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(a)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,
>>>>>
>>>>> Asaf
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Konstantinos Stampoulis <
>>>>> geraki(a)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(a)geraki.gr
>>>>>>
http://www.geraki.gr
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2013/2/20 Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Asaf Bartov
>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Asaf Bartov
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
>>>>
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>>>> in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Asaf Bartov
> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share
> in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>
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