can someone please point me to the facebook page ?

Mardetanha

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Josh Lim <jamesjoshualim@yahoo.com> wrote:

Siska started a page on Meta last year: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Asian_Chapters_Meeting.  We can probably use that as a basis.

Josh

El 13/11/2012, a las 10:59, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25@gmail.com> escribió:

Dear Wikimedians,

Greetings from India

.

It is great to see lot of discussion around an Asia meetup.

Should we have our conversations in a focused manner on a meta page?

So far the conversations seem to veer around:

When

Where

Funding 

Australia and Asia 

Are we looking at a small gathering like the chapters meeting in Germany or a larger group of wikimedians from the region?

Should we start a page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Asiapac_Meeting and start by defining its goal and objectives?

We should do as an annual event in APAC.

In my view the need is compelling.

regards

Arun

Arun Ramarathnam
Bangalore, India
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Josh Lim <jamesjoshualim@yahoo.com> wrote:

El 13/11/2012, a las 08:50, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง <kudpung.wikipedia@gmail.com> escribió:

Anywhere else, especially  the Philippines, would be far  too  far away  even for me here in  Thailand.

Manila is 1,361 miles from Bangkok.  Jakarta is even farther, at 1,420 miles.  As I was recently in Thailand, I can easily say that the Philippines is not as far as you claim it is.

(On the other hand, it would beneficial if we had a more central location.  Based on my calculations, the most central location is Vietnam.  But economically, the cost of having a meeting in the Philippines, or even Indonesia, offsets the distance, as it would be cheaper to hold a meeting there than in Singapore or Malaysia.)

Currently  the effort is on creating  a Thai  work group, if not  immediately a chapter, in  order to secure scholarships for Thai  editors to  go  to  'fairly' nearby Wikimania in  Hong Kong  next  year.

If it helps, Wikimedia Philippines contemplated establishing a fund to disburse scholarships to Wikimania for both Filipino and Southeast Asian Wikipedians in the past.  It's allocated as part of our proposed budget for 2013, and should it push through we'll inform people in due time. (But don't keep your hopes up though.)

ASAIK, Thai  Wikipedians were not   present in  Washinton.

I believe the only Southeast Asians at Wikimania this year was a Filipino (the treasurer of Wikimedia Philippines), a Malaysian, and I believe 1-2 Vietnamese people.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.

If we are to consider though the general definition of what this mailing list is for (which is for everyone in Asia, from Turkey to Australia and Russia to Indonesia), there were quite a number of Asian people there: this was evidenced at the number of people who attended the Wikimedia Asia lunch at Wikimania.

Josh

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