Most of the participants at this year's Wikimania Asia meetup favored for Indonesia. That's okay, but there's another point about hosting it in Australia. Australia's visa policy might result in a reduced number of participation from Asian communities, since that is not as generous as that of Indonesia. So this need to be kept in mind. On Sunday, August 20, 2017, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote: the Berlin meetup where it was put forward and fully support Indonesia hosting the event... What ever the out we do need to ensure we get something happening for our communities locally soon as hosting a larger event in the region apparently is needed now before a wikimania can be hosted wrote: Australia also intent to host too then it is best that we plan this as early as possible as the 1 hour meetup in Berlin and in Wikimania is too short. last year or earlier, welcome back! collaboration in the coming year. Notes of the meeting are here: meetup_at_Wikimania_2017 We're also trying to do a Wikimedia Asia regional conference, likely in Indonesia. The various organisers will get make announcements on this mailing list in due course. in England) p6YB2TJcqd7R3vVS0KlyJZ0NZnLQ0sHLwai334yRhvxPQEAJEgTVM6W_ HOOEPqUzKGhizLRn8WDJgD7VzgKIMgsNLroP1w=s0-d-e1-ft#http:// awards.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/WAH2014/images/award_finalist.jpg> -- Regards, Tanweer _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters

Hello everyone, Yes, there have been previous conversations regarding ESEAP (East and South East Asia Pacific) regional conference and Wikimedia Indonesia has offered to support by becoming a host to this event. WMID is still committed to hosting this next year. Our small team has even write a proposed budget and form a core committee. The proposal writing team is supposed to write the proposal grant and submit it around end of September or early October. Can the admin of this list please add Biyanto? Apparently he is not on the list, his email is biyanto.rebin(a)wikimedia.or.id. Thanks! -- Ivonne Kristiani | Wakil Ketua (*Deputy Chair*) 2017-2018 Wikimedia Indonesia Ph. +628 96 434 28 091 ~~~~ Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan: http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi 2017-08-21 14:07 GMT+07:00 Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com>om>: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters

Hello, Based on the composition of the meetup, interested participants go as far as Iran and the Levant regions to the west, India, Bangladesh then Australia to the south. Even communities in Eastern Russia are expressed interest to join. If this will come to possibility, it will be the most diverse wikimedia regional conference. Butch PH/SG/MY On Aug 21, 2017 4:21 PM, "Ivonne Kristiani" <ivonne.kristiani@wikimedia. or.id> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters

Kaya Ivonne, I applaud your cautious approach but please could you look to say 100 participants as 50 will see too many people unable to be part of the event especially given the number of communities and just the FB group that were talking last night about this had over 60 participants, I suspect that this mailing list also has more than 50. Cheers Gideon aka Gnangarra On 22 August 2017 at 11:44, Ivonne Kristiani <ivonne.kristiani@wikimedia. or.id> wrote: -- GN. President Wikimedia Australia WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters

On 22Aug, 2017, at 11:12, Gnangarra &lt;gnangarra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: I agree with doing a small conference first, I thought that given what is available as venues in Indonesia that a 100 person event over two days all in one hotel(Like Berlin 2017) somewhere would be quite manageable. The target of 50 I thought would be too small to be able to get a good cross section of participants from enough communities. As part of this is going bigger the smaller the initial number the less able we will be to build sufficient momentum for the next one. Also small size can have a negative effect of being seen as an event for those privileged usual suspects. On 22 August 2017 at 12:03, Biyanto Rebin &lt;biyanto.rebin(a)wikimedia.or.id <mailto:biyanto.rebin@wikimedia.or.id>> wrote: Hello Gideon, We expect to run ESEAP conference first as ESEAP representative in Wikimedia Conference already discuss it before, so it should be not more than 50 participants, as we would like to increase the community participants in ESEAP region. ESEAP region is also more underrepresented in Wikimedia movements than other community. When we gather together in conference, we miss out people from Brunei, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Timor Leste even Vietnam as well as Indonesian and Australian. That's the reason why we should try to do a small conference first, after that we can do together a bigger conference such as Asian Conference. We can start to work with another region and especially Indian community who have established a good event, such as WikiConference India. Is this reasonable for you? Cheers, 2017-08-22 10:54 GMT+07:00 Gnangarra &lt;gnangarra(a)gmail.com <mailto:gnangarra@gmail.com>>: Kaya Ivonne, I applaud your cautious approach but please could you look to say 100 participants as 50 will see too many people unable to be part of the event especially given the number of communities and just the FB group that were talking last night about this had over 60 participants, I suspect that this mailing list also has more than 50. Cheers Gideon aka Gnangarra On 22 August 2017 at 11:44, Ivonne Kristiani &lt;ivonne.kristiani(a)wikimedia.or.id <mailto:ivonne.kristiani@wikimedia.or.id>> wrote: We would love to host Asian Conference, but considering that it will be the first time for WMID to host such a huge regional conference and also taking into account the time span and resources for preparing the conference, we prefer to start small and we cap the participants to 50 people max, from ESEAP. Afterwards, we can discuss about the possibility of hosting a bigger conference. -- Ivonne Kristiani | Wakil Ketua (Deputy Chair) 2017-2018 Wikimedia Indonesia Ph. +628 96 434 28 091 ~~~~ Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan: http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi <http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi> 2017-08-21 15:59 GMT+07:00 Roman Bustria Jr. &lt;bustrias(a)gmail.com <mailto:bustrias@gmail.com>>: Hello, Based on the composition of the meetup, interested participants go as far as Iran and the Levant regions to the west, India, Bangladesh then Australia to the south. Even communities in Eastern Russia are expressed interest to join. If this will come to possibility, it will be the most diverse wikimedia regional conference. Butch PH/SG/MY On Aug 21, 2017 4:21 PM, "Ivonne Kristiani" &lt;ivonne.kristiani(a)wikimedia.or.id <mailto:ivonne.kristiani@wikimedia.or.id>> wrote: Hello everyone, Yes, there have been previous conversations regarding ESEAP (East and South East Asia Pacific) regional conference and Wikimedia Indonesia has offered to support by becoming a host to this event. WMID is still committed to hosting this next year. Our small team has even write a proposed budget and form a core committee. The proposal writing team is supposed to write the proposal grant and submit it around end of September or early October. Can the admin of this list please add Biyanto? Apparently he is not on the list, his email is biyanto.rebin(a)wikimedia.or.id <mailto:biyanto.rebin@wikimedia.or.id>. Thanks! -- Ivonne Kristiani | Wakil Ketua (Deputy Chair) 2017-2018 Wikimedia Indonesia Ph. +628 96 434 28 091 ~~~~ Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan: http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi <http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi> 2017-08-21 14:07 GMT+07:00 Gnangarra &lt;gnangarra(a)gmail.com <mailto:gnangarra@gmail.com>>: Please I'm not trying to take it away from Indonesia, just think its an important event that we need to hold for our region and that we need to get on to it sooner if we are to get funding for an event in 2018 There are a lot of hoops to jump through and the application for funding process as understood from berlin notification and discussions is that at least 3 months for funding discussion noting that things slow down over the december period, 3 months for scholarship and call for papers. Once we add to that planning, costing those little details we'll need for the fund application thats putting us well into 2018., We dont want to conflict with Wikimania there goes june to august, too close means people cant attend both. We loose late march early april to Berlin though thats a great opportunity to get some speakers and advice. we have two windows. left even starting today late April to early June or August to October Yes I acknowledge culturally I'm a little more pushy than most I do try to temper that, sometimes I my english is difficult so please forgive me On 21 August 2017 at 14:41, Tanweer Morshed &lt;wiki.tanweer(a)gmail.com <mailto:wiki.tanweer@gmail.com>> wrote: Most of the participants at this year's Wikimania Asia meetup favored for Indonesia. That's okay, but there's another point about hosting it in Australia. Australia's visa policy might result in a reduced number of participation from Asian communities, since that is not as generous as that of Indonesia. So this need to be kept in mind. On Sunday, August 20, 2017, Gnangarra &lt;gnangarra(a)gmail.com <mailto:gnangarra@gmail.com>> wrote: -- Regards, Tanweer _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-asia-chapters@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters> -- GN. 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