Hi everyone,
I'm very happy to announce that De Bond Heemschut is going to support the organisation of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 in the Netherlands! From their website: "De Bond Heemschut is a private organization which has worked continuously for almost 100 years (since 1911) to preserve the Dutch cultural heritage. 'Heemschut' derives from the words 'schutten' meaning to 'enclose' (i.e. protect) and 'heem', 'one's premises'. As a heritage organization our work involves protecting historically interesting structures and sites - everything from an endangered tea house to carved up land, for example alongside the motorways.
We carry out this work with the drive and dedication of volunteers. Each of the Dutch provinces and the city of Amsterdam has its own independent Heemschut committee." (from http://www.heemschut.nl/en.html, more information over there)
They already supported Wiki Loves Monuments 2010 with some prices and with someone in our jury. This year Heemschut is going to support us a lot more with "offline" PR, something we didn't really get to last year.
I look forward working with them!
Maybe something for the other countries to look into: Does your country have a volunteer based heritage organization like Heemschut? It would be a natural partner to work with.
Maarten
Congratulations! We'll look for similar organizations here.
Millars
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:18:13 +0100 From: maarten@mdammers.nl To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Heemschut is going to support WLM2011 in the Netherlands
Hi everyone,
I'm very happy to announce that De Bond Heemschut is going to support the organisation of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 in the Netherlands! From their website: "De Bond Heemschut is a private organization which has worked continuously for almost 100 years (since 1911) to preserve the Dutch cultural heritage. 'Heemschut' derives from the words 'schutten' meaning to 'enclose' (i.e. protect) and 'heem', 'one's premises'. As a heritage organization our work involves protecting historically interesting structures and sites - everything from an endangered tea house to carved up land, for example alongside the motorways.
We carry out this work with the drive and dedication of volunteers. Each of the Dutch provinces and the city of Amsterdam has its own independent Heemschut committee." (from http://www.heemschut.nl/en.html, more information over there)
They already supported Wiki Loves Monuments 2010 with some prices and with someone in our jury. This year Heemschut is going to support us a lot more with "offline" PR, something we didn't really get to last year.
I look forward working with them!
Maybe something for the other countries to look into: Does your country have a volunteer based heritage organization like Heemschut? It would be a natural partner to work with.
Maarten
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Congratulations ! Very good job... :-)
Adrienne
2011/3/22 Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl
Hi everyone,
I'm very happy to announce that De Bond Heemschut is going to support the organisation of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 in the Netherlands! From their website: "De Bond Heemschut is a private organization which has worked continuously for almost 100 years (since 1911) to preserve the Dutch cultural heritage. 'Heemschut' derives from the words 'schutten' meaning to 'enclose' (i.e. protect) and 'heem', 'one's premises'. As a heritage organization our work involves protecting historically interesting structures and sites - everything from an endangered tea house to carved up land, for example alongside the motorways.
We carry out this work with the drive and dedication of volunteers. Each of the Dutch provinces and the city of Amsterdam has its own independent Heemschut committee." (from http://www.heemschut.nl/en.html, more information over there)
They already supported Wiki Loves Monuments 2010 with some prices and with someone in our jury. This year Heemschut is going to support us a lot more with "offline" PR, something we didn't really get to last year.
I look forward working with them!
Maybe something for the other countries to look into: Does your country have a volunteer based heritage organization like Heemschut? It would be a natural partner to work with.
Maarten
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
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