Dear all,

We are happy to host the 7th Central Eastern European Meeting in Lviv, Ukraine. We want to thank you for your support, the Committee worked hard to determine the winner and our friends from Serbia had created a very competing bid - we are grateful that you trust us to uphold the high standards of organising this important international event that all of us have jointly developed over the last few years.

We are now finalizing the team working on the project, and the next step for us will be creating a grant proposal for the event, and setting up the International program committee. We shall try to keep you informed about our work and we are also going to ask for your input from time to time on things that we might want to change as the community.

As we really want (and need) to lock the dates of the event, we want to have your input about them: originally we planned for August 17-19, but there were concerns that it is too soon after Wikimania 2018 - and that might be, if you are attending both events. But we also believe that it might be a great opportunity to send other representatives from your community or affiliate.

We are now discussing these dates with the venue:

• August 17-19

• October 13-15

And we would like to hear more voices (it would be great if you can mention if you are speaking for yourself personally or from your affiliate) about the dates from you over the next few days, and on Monday, November 27, we are planning to send a letter with the final dates to the venue.

Best regards,

Maksym Tsizh

Board member of Wikimedia Ukraine