On 3 May, 2012, at 13:17, Siska Doviana <
siska.doviana@wikimedia.or.id> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> I for one is not a fan of conferences, specially if the aim is
> somewhat loss (not focused). I helped AU and AR for wikiwomen
> conference this year with international attendees of 9-12 women
> (including myself and Kartika), and I am happy that this is a focused
> conference where sharing is focused to problem solving.
>
> I was warned by the Russian attendees during interview, and she said:
> "If this conference is not focused and you girls are talking about
> wikipetan, I'm not coming!"
>
> I was laughing and agreeing with her. I assure her that I'm would
> like to discuss project, an indepth, workable, technical up to details
> project discussions, and both of us end the interview happy and
> excited.
>
> I'm against having conference for the sake of having conference. I
> don't know whether any of you know or not, WMAU is planning to
> organize a language conference this year in Bali. This means, any of
> yous with language focused area are invited, and any of yous whose
> focused are not in language area is NOT invited.
>
> WMID also planning an advocacy for Indonesia focused fundraising with
> the government, this involved inviting Wikimedia Estonia's Raul Veede
> as a speaker for being able to drag their tax department to the court
> and win by having WMES as tax deduction non profit organization. This
> mean having seminar about this focused area.
>
> Jeromy, I see you owe John a BIG CUP OF COFEE for supporting you.
>
> Regards,
> Siska Doviana
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Josh Lim <
jamesjoshualim@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> First of all, I'd like to extend my congratulations to Wikimedia Hong Kong
>> for their successful Wikimania 2013 bid. Looks like we'll be flooding
>> Wikimania next year. :P
>>
>> Secondly, I'm writing this e-mail to see whether or not it will be possible
>> for us to organize an Asian Wikimedia conference sometime in the future,
>> either next year or in 2014. I think it would be good for us if we can
>> organize a regional conference, especially with the wave of regional
>> conferences being organized: WikiBilim organized the Turkic Wikimedia
>> Conference for Central Asia last month, and Iberocoop is organizing the
>> Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit this year in Santiago, Chile. Maybe we can
>> do the same? What do you guys think?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM
>> Block I1, AB Political Science
>> Major in Global Politics, Minor in Chinese Studies
>> Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University
>> Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
>>
>> Vice-President (2011-2012), Wikimedia Philippines
>> Member, Ateneo Debate Society
>> Member, The Assembly
>> Member, Ateneo Lingua Ars Cultura
>>
>>
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