Re: [Wikimedia-l] Iberoconf 2012

(sorry for cross-posting) Hi, In the past few days, representatives of different Wikimedia chapters and working groups met in Santiago de Chile for the Second Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit (also known as Iberoconf). This event took place between June 1st and 3rd at the DUOC UC Institute – Campus Alonso Ovalle, with two representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela, and for the first time, guests from Panama and Peru. The event was an incredible opportunity for the different groups to share their experiences from a local and regional perspective and articulate a common framework for future projects in Ibero America. The use of the native language of all the participants instead of a foreign language as it happens in most of Wikimedia events was a Here is a summary of the main topics of the summit: - Recommendations for the creation and development of Wikimedia chapters. - Experience of Brazilian and Mexican wikipedians at universities. - Discussion on development of projects in indigenous languages. - Best practices for grant making , accountability and GLAM projects. - Workshop of external communication and social media. - Workshop of “Wiki Loves Monument” In the following days, we expect to release an extended summary of the event in Meta, and records of the sessions and photos. Also, every chapter and working group will upload the slides of their “State of the Chapter”; some of them are already available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Presentaciones_en_el_Encuentro_W… I would like to thank to the Wikimedia Foundation for funding this project and their representative at the meeting (Samuel Klein as part of the Board and Matthew Roth as part of the Staff) because their valuable and really helpful participation at the sessions. The same to Délphine Menard, who came as a guest in representation of Wikimedia Deutschland. Thanks also for all the participants, -some of them even flew for more than 24 hours, and for those that voted our bid past March. But, more important, I want to thank to all the members of Wikimedia Chile that helped to organize this event. We bid in February mainly as a joke and now we are finally resting after organizing such a big event. It was a great opportunity to bring closer our members and learn about event organization. To Juan David, Lily, Daniel, Dennis, Eduardo, Sarah, Rocío and Marco, thank you! I’m really happy with this Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit, which is becoming one of our traditions as a movement and as an example for regional cooperation activities. We expect anxiously next summit in 2013 and, as a general recommendation, I public encourage our fellow chapters to start ambitious projects like this one. Kind regards, Osmar Valdebenito Gaete Presidente de Wikimedia Chile http://www.wikimediachile.cl _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l