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
>>>
>>
>
>
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