Dear Rodrigo, Al-Scandar and Castelo,
I am contacting you on behalf of the Affiliations Committee to invite
you for a Webex call about Wikimedia Brasil's process of recognition
as a Wikimedia chapter.
We would like to use this call as an opportunity to discuss all
matters related to Wikimedia Brasil's process of recognition as a
Wikimedia chapter, specifically including the recent developments
(since our meeting at the Chapters Conference in Berlin, Germany, at
the end of March).
The Committee will be represented by Maria (CC'd here) and myself, and
I have contacted you as the three most active and well-known members
of Wikimedia Brasil that I could think of; I you feel that you will be
unable to take part in the call or have another suggestions for people
that should be part of it, please let us know. If possible, I would
like, however, to limit the number of people taking part in the call
to 5/6, because the bigger the group is, the harder it is to have a
productive call.
On a more technical note: Webex is a web conferencing system developed
by Cisco Systems, Inc. that is used by the Wikimedia Foundation. It
enables people not only to take part in a conference via their
computer, but also makes it possible to join the conference through a
toll-free call-in phone number or to receive an incoming call from the
conference (so you don't have to pay for the call).
The WMF has been using Webex for some time already, and I have also
thoroughly tested it myself; it's very easy to use, and the
possibility of calling-in the conference makes the audio quality very
good, much better than Skype or other VoIP services; also, the only
requirement to use Webex is to have a Java-enabled browser.
If you'd like to take part in the call, please write down your
preference using a Doodle form at
<
http://doodle.com/nsv6yusym5dxgs8h>. There are 5 hours of difference
between Europe and Brazil, so I have tried to make it possible for all
of us to take part in the call, scheduling it for a late afternoon in
Brazil (which is a late evening here in Europe). Please note that the
hours are given in UTC -- but you're able to convert them to your
local time using a drop-down menu just above the suggested times.
If you have any questions about the meeting, please do not hesitate to ask.
Thanks in advance for your time,
--
Tomasz W. Kozłowski
a.k.a. [[user:odder]]
Affiliations Committee