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(a)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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