2011/5/9 Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl:
Hi Strainu,
Hi Maarten,
Op 9 mei 2011 om 17:55 heeft Strainu strainu10@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:\
Hi guys,
I have two questions regarding this contest:
- Is a local chapter needed for organizing such a contest locally or
could it be done otherwise?
A group of active people is needed. These are often part of a chapter, but a chapter is not an absolute requirement.
As it happens, I found out about Wiki Loves Monuments while looking for subjects for a free image competition I recently imagined to provide more free images from Romania. Since an European competition would be (I hope) an additional selling point, I thought we might become part of it. The "organizing comitee" for this contest exists, however, since we don't a have a chapter, we are partnering with another NGO which advocates the use of FLOSS to attract sponsors and partners (that is, we were thinking of positioning the contest as a "free image competition", not a "wiki image competition").
Before I go any further, I just wanna make sure that neither me nor the NGO will get in any trademark-related issues with the WMF. As far as I could see, the Wiki(m|p)edia trademarks are not used, so we should be safe, but I wanted a confirmation on that.
- Is it still possible for a new country to register?
Sure, you just have to work a bit faster to be ready in September ;-) What country are you thinking about?
I'm thinking about organizing the contest in Romania. The period we had initially planned was august-september, so it roughly matches your timeline.
I'll talk with the rest of the people involved and we'll decide by the end of the week if we can match your timeline :)
Thanks for your response, Strainu