Dear all, I took the lead of the "exchange" team of the WCA. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Journal/2013_… This team aim to facilitate exchange of service (like website hosting, documentation template exchange, etc.) between chapters and chapters to be. Even if this team has been created within the WCA, its scope is not restricted to chapters members of the association. To help me is this task, I'm looking for a regional coordinator from the Asian Chapters mailing list. The basic idea is that a chapters looking for anything can ask on the mailing list he like to use and in the language he prefer, like this the coordinator will just transmit to the rest of the Exchange team the request, and each other coordinator will assure the transfer to the other linguistic or thematic mailing list. I hope you will like the idea and join me! Sincerely Charles ___________________________________________________________ Charles ANDRES, Chairman "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters

I presume this is for the entire region, as there is one coordinator for the CEE group and one for Iberocoop. There can be one coordinator who forwards everything to this list, and then from here people can translate things if necessary. 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 Trustee (2010-2013), Wikimedia Philippines Member, Ateneo Debate Society Member, The Assembly jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com | +63 (927) 531-8301 Friendster/Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor http://akira123323.livejournal.com ------------------------------ *From:* Shabab Mustafa &lt;shabab.mustafa(a)gmail.com&gt; *To:* Asian Wikimedia Chapters coordination < wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; *Sent:* Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:11 AM *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Looking for a Regional Coordinator for Chapter's exchange Hi Charles, I have a question. Will there be 'one' representative for whole Asia region or 'one' coordinator per major languages spoken in Asia? You know a wide variety of languages are spoken throughout this region and knowing all those languages for one person is virtually an impossibility. If you meant 'one' coordinator per language, then I would be happy to lend a hand for Bengali. Regards, --- Shabab Mustafa WMBD On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:14 PM, charles andrès < charles.andres(a)wikimedia.ch&gt; wrote: Dear all, I took the lead of the "exchange" team of the WCA. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Journal/2013_… This team aim to facilitate exchange of service (like website hosting, documentation template exchange, etc.) between chapters and chapters to be. Even if this team has been created within the WCA, its scope is not restricted to chapters members of the association. To help me is this task, I'm looking for a regional coordinator from the Asian Chapters mailing list. The basic idea is that a chapters looking for anything can ask on the mailing list he like to use and in the language he prefer, like this the coordinator will just transmit to the rest of the Exchange team the request, and each other coordinator will assure the transfer to the other linguistic or thematic mailing list. I hope you will like the idea and join me! Sincerely Charles ___________________________________________________________ Charles ANDRES, Chairman "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters

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.) 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 Trustee (2010-2013), Wikimedia Philippines Member, Ateneo Debate Society Member, The Assembly jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com | +63 (927) 531-8301 Friendster/Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor http://akira123323.livejournal.com ________________________________ From: Shabab Mustafa &lt;shabab.mustafa(a)gmail.com&gt; To: Asian Wikimedia Chapters coordination &lt;wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>; Josh Lim &lt;jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com&gt; Cc: &quot;charles.andres(a)wikimedia.ch&quot; &lt;charles.andres(a)wikimedia.ch&gt; Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 2:47 AM 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. --- Shabab Mustafa On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Josh Lim &lt;jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: I presume this is for the entire region, as there is one coordinator for the CEE group and one for Iberocoop.  There can be one coordinator who forwards everything to this list, and then from here people can translate things if necessary. Manila, Philippines WMBD > > > > >On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:14 PM, charles andrès > &lt;charles.andres(a)wikimedia.ch&gt; wrote: > >Dear all, >> >> >>I took the lead of the "exchange" team of the WCA. >>  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Journal/2013_… >> >> >>This team aim to facilitate exchange of service (like website hosting, >> documentation template exchange, etc.) between chapters and chapters to >> be. >> >> >>Even if this team has been created within the WCA, its scope is not >> restricted to chapters members of the association. >> >> >>To help me is this task, I'm looking for a regional coordinator from the >> Asian Chapters mailing list. >> >> >>The basic idea is that a chapters looking for anything can ask on the >> mailing list he like to use and in the language he prefer, like this the >> coordinator will just transmit to the rest of the Exchange team the >> request, and each other coordinator will assure the transfer to the other >> linguistic or thematic mailing list. >> >> >>I hope you will like the idea and join me! >> >> >> >> >>Sincerely >> >> >>Charles >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>___________________________________________________________ >>Charles ANDRES, Chairman >>"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – >>www.wikimedia.ch >>Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 >>Skype: charles.andres.wmch >>IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list &gt;&gt;Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list &gt;Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters > > > >_______________________________________________ >Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list &gt;Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters > >