Hi, Nurunnaby.
Bangladesh is not planned to be part of this particular visit. I've heard
about and appreciated the warm welcome your community gave our mobile team,
though. :)
We would be delighted to visit Bangladesh, given a suitable context. We
don't just travel for fun... :)
Cheers,
Asaf
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury <nh(a)nhasive.com> wrote:
Hi Asaf,
Nice to know. Is there any plan of this team to come Bangladesh? We are
very happy if the team able to come & meet with our Wikimedians.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Dear Indian Wikimedians,
I pleased to announce a group from the Wikimedia Foundation will be
visiting India next week, staying in Bangalore from Feb 10th through Feb
16th.
The group includes:
1. Garfield Byrd (WMF's Chief of Finance and Administration)
2. Anasuya Sengupta (WMF's Senior Director of Grantmaking)
3. Sydney Poore (volunteer member of the Funds Dissemination Committee
[FDC])
and will be joined in India by WMF Trustee Bishakha Datta.
(I had also been intending to come, but am prevented this time around due
to unexpected issues securing a travelling visa to India.)
WMF staff have been visiting partner organizations and communities over
the past few months, to learn more about their context, achievements and
challenges. More recently, FDC members have been joining them in this
effort. Currently, WMF staff and FDC members are visiting Germany.
One purpose of this visit is to conduct working meetings with the
Foundation's two major partners and grantees in India: the Wikimedia India
(WMIN) chapter and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), operating the
Access To Knowledge (A2K) programme.
Additionally, we would like to meet as many Wikimedians as we can, via a
community meetup in Bangalore, and to make ourselves available over digital
channels (at least taking advantage of being in the same timezone) to
community members across India, via open group discussions over IRC. We
are also open to discussion with any interested smaller groups or
individuals, over Skype, Hangout, or telephone, time permitting.
We have put up a rough agenda page up on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_India_Visit_Feb_2014
Please feel free to sign up for the meetup or the conversations, and to
raise topics you would like to see addressed, on the talk page.
We greatly regret that logistical issues are preventing us from visiting
other communities in person this time around, and from attending the Telugu
community's 10th anniversary celebrations in Vijayawada.
Cheers,
Asaf Bartov
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