Dear fellow Wikimedians, I am happy to inform you, that "Stowarzyszenie Wikimedia Polska" (Wikimedia Polska Association), the Polish Chapter of Wikimedia Foundation, has been founded this sunday in Krakow, during a larger two day event called "Wikimedia Polska 2005 Meetup". More than 25 founding members signed the documents. Five Wikimedians were pre-elected to the Board of Wikimedia Polska: - Łukasz Garczewski (pl:User:TOR), as president; - Piotr Cywiński (pl:User:Wulfstan), as vice-president; - Tomasz Ganicz (pl:User:Polimerek), as tresurer; - Dariusz Siedlecki (pl:User:Datrio), as scretary; - Jadwiga Andrychowska-Biegacz (pl:User:Jadwiga), as board member. We still have to get the documents to court and take care of all the formalities, but we can already see new possibilites opening up before us. Please visit http://pl.wikimedia.org/ for more information and the latest news on the Polish Chapter if you want to keep up to date. We will translate the important pages into English ASAP. If you need to contact the Polish Chapter, feel free to msg me (TOR_CNR) or Datrio on #wikimedia on IRC, leave a message on our talk pages on pl.wikimedia.org (or meta) or e-mail us (addresses can be found on meta). Chapters aside, you can view the photos taken during the meetup on the Commons under http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polish_Wikimedia_Meetup_2005 or in Polish (if you want to practice our wonderfully difficult language by reading the cations) under: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Zlot_Wikimedia_Polska_2005/Zdj%C4%99… I'd also like to thank everyone whose work and dedication made both the Chapter and the meetup possible. Special thanks go to Datrio, Wulfstan and G-dam for all the hard work they've done on the bylaws and to Jadwiga for organizing things in Krakow wonderfully. And a big thank you to Tim Shell (who attended the meetup and had to put up with us Poles for two days :)) for all the patience, kind words and encouragement! -- Best regards, Lucas "TOR" Garczewski