Hello,
I asked two people from the Ben Gurion University's Africa Center to attend Wikimania for as much as they can, in order to talk with developers and other people involved in offline projects and "devnations" initiatives. These two students were part of the Israeli mission to Santchou, Cameroon, earlier this year, and they had a lot of success with installing offline versions of the French Wikipedia there. I wrote about it in Hebrew on wm-il's blog, and Amir sent an English self-translation to the Foundation's blog, I hope it would be published soon.
Anyway, one of these students is engaged in other volunteering projects throughout the summer, but this time in Israel, so he said that if he would be in the vicinity of Haifa on 2-3 August he will come to talk with anyone who would like to hear about his experience. The other student agreed to come on Friday to talk about their success story during the main event. She was unsure whether she could come on 2-3 August too due to her working schedule (it ain't cheap being a student in this country...)
Anyway, I suggest anyone involved in the "devnations" initiatives be in or around the hall, where the talk about Africa is held, so we could gather with her after the talk and ask some useful questions.
Dror K
Hi Dror,
thanks a lot for the contact-making and coordination.
Just in case, here is the link to the meeting plans: http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_South_Meeting
/Manuel
On 30.06.2011 02:59, dror1975@icqmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I asked two people from the Ben Gurion University's Africa Center to attend Wikimania for as much as they can, in order to talk with developers and other people involved in offline projects and "devnations" initiatives. These two students were part of the Israeli mission to Santchou, Cameroon, earlier this year, and they had a lot of success with installing offline versions of the French Wikipedia there. I wrote about it in Hebrew on wm-il's blog, and Amir sent an English self-translation to the Foundation's blog, I hope it would be published soon.
Anyway, one of these students is engaged in other volunteering projects throughout the summer, but this time in Israel, so he said that if he would be in the vicinity of Haifa on 2-3 August he will come to talk with anyone who would like to hear about his experience. The other student agreed to come on Friday to talk about their success story during the main event. She was unsure whether she could come on 2-3 August too due to her working schedule (it ain't cheap being a student in this country...)
Anyway, I suggest anyone involved in the "devnations" initiatives be in or around the hall, where the talk about Africa is held, so we could gather with her after the talk and ask some useful questions.
Dror K
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