i saw quite some discussion here and on the ghana wikipedia article
about a topic which seems to be "Inquiry that probed Ghana’s
preparations, participation and performance at the 2011 All Africa
Games". today i had a first look and i am confused a little i must
admit.
i found references about a report produced. and references that the
parliament ordered a probe:
http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/index.php/sports/265-parliament-probes-8b…
on the other hand i found references saying that the reports results
were released early:
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/artikel.php?ID=238465
or that no action is taken because persons of the governing party
could be involved:
http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/index.php/politics/963-mahama-fighting-co…
but the report itself i could not find. on the ghana articles
references are added and deleted. i know you discussed it here many
times, but i must admit i have difficulties to understand your
viewpoint on this, having no background information. what do you
think?
rupert.
Just started an article for GDays happening all over the world.
Please feel free to add contents and use this as a medium to gain some
edits for yourself.
Link below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDays
Cheers,
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who likes to write software, and wants to earn 5'500 usd during the summer
break (may - august 2014), apply for google summer of code. a copy of the
original mail from quim rex referenced below:
So far, all our GSoC candidates come from only two (neighbor) countries:
India and Sri Lanka. While we are very happy seeing how popular Wikimedia
is among technical students in the Indian subcontinent, we are concerned
about the lack of candidates from anywhere else.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014#Candidates
GSoC 2013 had accepted students from 69 countries [1], and we have
participants from eight.[2] We can discuss about the deep causes of this
situation but... Considering that we have less than 9 days before the GSoC
deadline for students (March 21 @ 19:00 UTC) we should focus on finding new
candidates.
There is still time to become a strong GSoC candidate for Wikimedia. Many
project ideas in our GSoC page (linked above) have mentors available and no
candidates yet. Go for them! Also, since our evaluation of candidates is
based on their proposals published in mediawiki.org, Google's deadline is
not a hard stop to keep improving your plans together with your mentors.
April 7 is when we need to decide how many slots we will request, meaning
how many teams (candidates and mentors with a common plan) we believe that
can complete GSoC 2014 successfully. That date is more than three weeks
from now.
Diversity is an important factor for Wikimedia. We are putting a lot of
effort promoting gender diversity in our outreach programs, and we are
seeing good progress. It would be surprising to realize that a global
project like Wikimedia has a serious problem with geographical diversity.
Your ideas and actions to fix this situation are welcome.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/ProgramStatistics
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013
PS: in comparison, FOSS OPW is doing a lot better, with five candidates
from four countrieshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Rou…
coincidence?
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia
Foundationhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Nkansah Rexford
<nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-March/075222.html
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikimedia-GH mailing list
> Wikimedia-GH(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
>
>
Please spread to your community.
A.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:40 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: URGENT call for geographical diversity
in Wikimedia @ GSoC
To: wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear tech ambassadors, please help spreading this call for Google Summer of
Code candidates in your projects. Thank you!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Quim Gil* <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2014
Subject: URGENT call for geographical diversity in Wikimedia @ GSoC
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Please forward this email wisely. Yes, we need your help getting the word
out.
So far, all our GSoC candidates come from only two (neighbor) countries:
India and Sri Lanka. While we are very happy seeing how popular Wikimedia
is among technical students in the Indian subcontinent, we are concerned
about the lack of candidates from anywhere else.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014#Candidates
GSoC 2013 had accepted students from 69 countries [1], and we have
participants from eight.[2] We can discuss about the deep causes of this
situation but... Considering that we have less than 9 days before the GSoC
deadline for students (March 21 @ 19:00 UTC) we should focus on finding new
candidates.
There is still time to become a strong GSoC candidate for Wikimedia. Many
project ideas in our GSoC page (linked above) have mentors available and no
candidates yet. Go for them! Also, since our evaluation of candidates is
based on their proposals published in mediawiki.org, Google's deadline is
not a hard stop to keep improving your plans together with your mentors.
April 7 is when we need to decide how many slots we will request, meaning
how many teams (candidates and mentors with a common plan) we believe that
can complete GSoC 2014 successfully. That date is more than three weeks
from now.
Diversity is an important factor for Wikimedia. We are putting a lot of
effort promoting gender diversity in our outreach programs, and we are
seeing good progress. It would be surprising to realize that a global
project like Wikimedia has a serious problem with geographical diversity.
Your ideas and actions to fix this situation are welcome.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/ProgramStatistics
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013
PS: in comparison, FOSS OPW is doing a lot better, with five candidates
from four countries
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_8#Cand…
coincidence?
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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