As you probably know the Wikimedia CEE Meeting of 2016 is going to take place in Dilijan, Armenia on 26-29 August and will be hosted by Wikimedia Armenia. I'm happy to announce that we have almost completed the grant proposal and formed the organization team. This year we expect to offer 58 scholarships and have about 90 attendees in total. You can find more information about the meeting in the grant proposal or on the meta page. The grant proposal is still a draft for the community members to propose changes and make corrections. We'll submit the grant proposal in a week. Please have a look at it. We highly appreciate your input :-) 

There are also other updates that I'd like to share with you:

* We had a visit to Dilijan on 3rd May to confirm our agreements with the venue (UWC Dilijan) and the hotel (Dilijan Resort) and to arrange meeting rooms and catering.

* WM AM reached out its volunteers in order to form local CEE organization team and discuss organizational issues. A meeting was held on 30th April. The full list of 27 volunteers and their roles can be found on the grant page. 

* All CEE communities were invited to fill in the Questions and Needs page on meta. Thanks Nikola and Antanana for reaching out the communities! If you have not done it yet please take a moment and write your community needs. I promise it won't take long :-)

As the CEE meeting preparations are actively going on one of our communication team members will inform you  about news and updates on the meeting once in 2 weeks or more often, if necessary. 

Best,