Hi, everyone.
During the Wikimedia Conference, a number of Asian chapters and chapters-to-be have
decided to discuss holding an Asian meeting during Wikimania 2013. Affiliates in
attendance were Wikimedia Hong Kong, Wikimedia India, Wikimedia Indonesia, Wikimedia
Israel, Wikimedia Nepal, Wikimedia Philippines and Wikimedia Taiwan.
We agreed that there should be a discussion on Meta about when and where the meeting
should be, what should be discussed during the meeting (meaning an agenda), and who should
be able to attend. This is to make sure that if we will have an Asian chapters/affiliates
meeting, we will have as many people as possible attending this meeting, and our meeting
will have some clear direction, especially as Vantharith Oum has suggested that we have an
Asian Wikimedia Conference some time after Wikimania.
To this effect, I thank Siska for creating a Meta page back in 2011 which discusses Asian
chapters meetings, so let's have this discussion on Meta so that as many people as
possible can join in. The discussion will take place at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Asian_Chapters_Meeting#Meeting_during_W….
Please tell your chapter boards, your national mailing lists, your village pumps, and the
like about this discussion. If we will seriously discuss about the future of this
inter-chapter group (and of Wikimedia in Asia in general), we have to discuss this as soon
as possible.
(For those who are receiving this on Wikimedia-l and Chapters-l: if you or your affiliate
is not on the Wikimedia Asia list, please sign up at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters. The list is not
strictly limited to chapters, so if you're from an Asian country, including the Middle
East, Russia, the Caucasus, Australia and New Zealand, please feel free to join the
list.)
Thanks and I hope to see everyone in Hong Kong. :)
Regards,
Josh
JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM
Block I1, AB Political Science
Major in Global Politics, Minor in Chinese Studies
Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Trustee (2010-2013), Wikimedia Philippines
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Member, The Assembly
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