Hi Asaf,
Thanks for your message. I'm based in the USA, and would love to talk to you over phone if you need to contact the chapter for any reason. I'll send you my number off the list.
Regards,
Ragib
Bureaucrat, Bengali Wikipedia Administrator, English Wikipedia
-- Ragib Hasan, Ph.D
Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35294
Website: http://www.ragibhasan.com
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Munir Hasan munir.hasan@bdosn.org wrote:
Dear Asaf,
Thank you very much for your inspiring words.
We indeed set together this evening to plan our next course of action and hopefully, Mr Tanvir will update you on this shortly.
I just want to take this opportunity to express pour heartfelt thanks to you and through you to all foundation members for granting our chapters.
Since 2006 we are actively working for wikipedia, although in some cases the results are not visible at such.
We hope that we could do better in future with your guidance and surely will expand our network in coming days.
Regards
Munir Hasan On behalf of the Bangladesh Chapter.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Dear Wikimedia Bangladesh founders and supporters.
Congratulations on getting recognized by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation as our newest Wikimedia chapter!
My name is Asaf, and I work for the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco. I am in charge of the Wikimedia Grants program, as well as growing Wikimedia in the developing world.
I would like to invite you to start planning your activities as a chapter, and to consider how you can make use of the help offered by the Wikimedia Foundation and the rest of the movement.
The Wikimedia Grants programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index[1] is a way for you to fund mission-aligned activities, and you can submit a request for a grant, according to the guidelines in the Grants page linked below.
Grants can help you start chapter programs such as outreach (recruiting new editors, educating Wikipedia readers, educating the press, changing attitudes toward Wikipedia among teachers and professors), partnerships (with educational organizations, including the government, with libraries, archives and museums [GLAM], with like-minded organizations [e.g. Free Software NGOs, Mozilla, Creative Commons]), events, and community meetups.
In addition to giving you funding, the Foundation can send you some Wikipedia merchandise (pins, stickers, etc.) to give away in public talks and events.
Finally, the Foundation is well-connected to Wikimedians around the world, and can most probably connect you with Wikimedians who share your interests, or have experienced challenges similar to yours, so I would like to personally encourage you to turn to us (and to me, specifically) for advice or help in any problem you come across.
We look forward to seeing the Bangladeshi community grow and prosper, and would like to hear your thoughts on what it would take to achieve that, and how the Foundation can help.
If you prefer, I am happy to have a voice conversation with a representative from your group. Please let me know what days and times are good for you, or contact me via one of the following:
Skype: asafbartov Office phone: +1-415-8396885 ext. 6767 Mobile phone: +1-415-515-2092
I am in timezone GMT-7.
I look forward to working with you,
Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index
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