Hi Lea and Ashwin,

Thank you for your questions.

The slogan "Meet for a Better Future!" was conceived through a brainstorming that we had in our Telegram group. We all agreed that we want to focus on the "future" and this word has easily entered the slogan. A more challenging task was to find a suitable verb and contenders other than "meet" were "reach", "open", "build" and "connect". At the end, however, we settled for the simple "meet" and also added "better" to reflect our expectation for an improvement. I am glad that you were on a similar line of thought for WikidataCon 2021.

The main language of the conference will be English but we also welcome and plan to include sessions in Russian. In the same vein as last year, we will provide simultaneous language interpretation from English to Russian and vice versa. Given that the CEE region consists of a large number of communities whose representatives use only Russian as an international language, the easiest way to break the language barrier and enable these people to take part and share their ideas and learning was by introducing this language.

Best regards,

Kiril

On Fri 27. Aug 2021 at 10:34, Ashwin Baindur - User AshLin <ashwin.baindur@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Kiril,

What would be the language of communication?

Regards, Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin on en:WP)

On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 at 01:52, Kiril Simeonovski <kiril.simeonovski@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,

I would like to announce the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021, which is scheduled to take place from 5-7 November and will be a virtual event for a second consecutive year.

This year's conference will be labelled with the slogan "Meet for a Better Future!" and its programme will be mostly filled with session proposals received through a call for submissions, while there will also be a handful of sessions that will feature keynote speakers or will be formatted as plenary discussions on important topics from the Wikimedia movement. You can submit your session proposal until the extended deadline of 30 September 2021.
Considering that the event will take place in an online environment and there are no significant barriers for participation, we would like to encourage participation and session proposals by people from outside the region of Central and Eastern Europe.
In case you have any questions regarding the conference, please do not hesitate to contact the Organising Committee members. You can also read the official blog post announcing the event in order to get more information about it.
Best regards,
Kiril Simeonovski
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