But the thing here is that Bengali is the language of only one chapter: Wikimedia Bangladesh. There's a reason why there are coordinators for French- and Spanish-speaking countries or, more pedantically speaking, Francocoop and Iberocoop. There's more than one chapter for both languages, and in particular for Spanish. I was apparently mistaken for the CEE group.
Let's remember here that Charles is looking for a regional coordinator for the Chapters Exchange. The Exchange is basically a project of the WCA which facilitates the exchange of services (i.e. tech infrastructure, assistance with organizing conferences, etc.) between chapters and chapters-to-be. As chapters are geographical entities, language divisions here are irrelevant.
However, as we still lack a coordinator, if you'd like to
volunteer to be the Asian coordinator (as WMBD is a member of the WCA), then feel free to volunteer for all of us. ;)
Josh
(N.B.: Wikimedia Philippines is not a member of the WCA.)
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Looking for a Regional Coordinator for
Chapter's exchange
Well according to WCA journal on meta, I can see name of regional coordinators for French-speaking
countries and Spanish-speaking countries.
Other point, Charles mentioned 'in the language he prefer'. If a coordinator can not understand the language, then how can he know that it was a cry for help related to 'exchange'?
Bengali is official language for Bangladesh (first language), West Bengal (state of India), Assam (state of India), Tripura (state of India) and Sierra Leone with 205 million+ native speakers.
I leaving it to WCA exchange team to decide. And as I do build websites for living and a fanboy of Linux, I would be happy to help on the related technical issues as well.