Hi all of You,
due to the generous offer of the Lettera27
Foundation<http://www.lettera27.org/>and WikiAfrica
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica>from Italy to give us
moleskine <http://www.moleskine.com/>notebooks with the imprint of the
Wiki Loves monument logo, we now do have the opportunity to ship out prizes
and goodies to all participating chapters. One parcel per chapter could be
send from Germany to the other chapters rather independent to its weight
for the same prize. Up to 30 kg for each parcel. WLM International will
stand for the shipping costs. So if You have some ideas please come with
consistent proposals. We will try to get the parcels shipped around the
15th of August. Which means the items have to be in Berlin until the *5th
of August*. As packaging and addressing has to be taken in account.
I know we have been discussing this point before, concerning calendars and
t-shirts. We came to the result that it will be to expensive and to
inefficient to have a central distribution for prizes and goodies. But
going into detailed research it turns out, that in fact DHL is offering a
handsome condition. So if You could have an sponsor at hand, like an
editing house for non fiction books on digital photography, or a T-shirt
producer, or more ideas to come, please let us know. At least the
distribution, as long as the total weight of the parcel is not above 30 kg,
is pretty solved.
Thanks Barbara
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Barbara Fischer
Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi all,
yesterday the Zedlerprize was awarded at the WikiAcademy in Berlin. We are
happy that the community project Wiki loves monument was elected as
winner by the jury. Especially helpfull to the sucess of the project was
the throgoughly change of attitude of the Federal Office of Heritage
Austria (BDA). As Dr. Holzschuh-Hofer of the BDA expressed it: Thanks to
Wiki loves Monument and the collaboration with the volunteers of Wikipedia,
we have experienced that open acess gives the better result. Please read
our blogpost <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/>for further details.
thanks Barbara
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Barbara Fischer
Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Dear All,
Further to my previous email, I wish to advise that it is our opinion as well as the National Heritage Council and the sponsors
we have contacted that the competition should take place in Israel
between 14 September and 14 October (ie during the month of Tishrei) for the following reasons:
* Between 16 September and 26 September are the High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur during which we cannot do events and it
is unlikely that pictures will be uploaded during these holidays.
* During the holiday of Sukkot (30 September - 9 October) the Israeli
public usually tours the country and visits locations around the country. Therefore, this
holiday period may be used for the competition, and many events may be
scheduled for this holiday.
We will make sure
that the final results be sent to the international competition on time, i.e. by 21 October, and therefore the shift in the competition dates
should not affect the international competition.
Regards,
Deror
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Hello everyone
I am from the South African chapter and we are also taking part in this year's WLM competition. We are curious as to what the budgets of the other participants are; are there maybe some other countries that would be so kind to share this with us? Thanks, we would just like to know for what we should be aiming for.
Kind regards
Lourie