Hi. Thank you for the answer, Sailesh! I am happy to see investment in language diversity in interactions with the WMF.

For future meetings with a focus on Latin America, you might want to know that we ran a survey across the Brazilian affiliate membership --a group of people that would potentially be interested in this activity--, and members have stated that when Portuguese is not an option they prefer communication to happen in English, not in Spanish.

Good luck with the activity,

João

Em seg., 29 de mar. de 2021 às 11:23, Sailesh Patnaik < spatnaik@wikimedia.org> escreveu:

Hey Joao,

This meeting will be held in Spanish and led by José Reyes from Wikimedia México. We won't be able to provide simultaneous translation for this meeting but we are exploring the possibility for future iterations. I'm looking particularly at the translation channel option over Zoom and it would be great if somebody from the community could help us with the translation if interested since this is a community-led event.

This is the first time we're trying this approach to the original education office hours that were solely in English and each time we'll continue making efforts to include more languages. Thank you for reaching out about this!

Thanks Sailesh

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:08 PM Sailesh Patnaik spatnaik@wikimedia.org wrote:

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Estimados y estimadas Wikimedistas,

Les escribo para invitarles a la segunda reunión regional de Wikimedia y educación[1]. Este mes será nuestra primera reunión para Latinoamérica y tendrá lugar el 31 de marzo 2021 a las 14:00 UTC. Esta reunión es una oportunidad para aprender y compartir proyectos, herramientas, o ideas con la comunidad de Wikimedia y educación de la región. Será liderada en español por Jose Reyes, Oficial de Educación de Wikimedia México, y parte del equipo de EWOC como especialista de comunidades de la región.

En esta reunión regional de educación para Latinoamérica contaremos con las presentaciones de:

José Reyes, sobre el estado de programas de educación en México

Novedades desde Wikimedia Argentina

Y la experiencia del programa ¡Leamos Wikipedia! en Bolivia

Si tienes otros temas, ideas, o preguntas que quieras añadir a la agenda, puedes dejarlas aquí[5] y trataremos de incluirlas durante la reunión. ¡Esperamos verles ahí!

Cordialmente,

José, equipo EWOC, Sailesh, y equipo de Educación de la Wikimedia Foundation

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Dear Wikimedians,

I am writing this email to invite you all to the second regional education meeting[1]. This month we are starting with our community members based in the Latin America region[2]. You can use these regional office hours as an opportunity to learn and share your projects, tools, or ideas with the education community from the region.

These regional education meetings are planned by the community specialists of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators (EWOC)[3] and the Education team. We are using this as an opportunity to strengthen the EduWiki network, explore collaboration opportunities, and identify common practices or challenges that are faced by our community members in different regions of the world. We are launching these regional office hours as a pilot initiative to complement our general monthly office hours[4], we encourage you to participate, share your ideas, and help this become a fully community-led initiative.

Our first LatAm regional education meeting will take place on 31st March 2021 at 14:00 UTC, it will be led in Spanish by José Reyes, Education Program Manager of Wikimedia Mexico and EWOC community specialist for the region.

At this LatAm regional education meeting, we will hear from:

Jose on the state of education in Mexico

Some updates from Wikimedia Argentina

And the experience of running Reading Wikipedia in the classroom program by Wikimedistas de Bolivia.

If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add them to the agenda here[5]. We will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Best!

José, EWOC community specialist team, Sailesh, and Education team

[1] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_Me...

[2] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_Me...

[3] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators

[4] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours

[5] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_Me...

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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)

Program Associate, Education

Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)

Program Associate, Education

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