Hello,
You are aware of the unfortunate coronavirus outbreak globally. In light of
the concerns with respect to COVID 19/Coronavirus outbreak in several parts
of the world, CIS-A2K, after getting instructions from WMF[1] and
recommendations from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) management
and the board, will be implementing the following measures:
1) Given the risk of human to human transmission, we are currently
cancelling/postponing our all offline/on-site Wiki-events such as
workshops, conferences etc. You might have noticed in another thread[2] on
this mailing list that we have decided not to conduct Hackathon at this
moment, which was supposed to be conducted at the end of March. Similarly,
Advanced Train-the-Trainer has been kept on hold as well.
2) CIS-A2K request page[3] currently won't support any offline/onsite
Wiki-events such as photowalk, workshop etc.
As of now, this will be applicable till 15 September 2020.
To keep the energy of the Wikimedia communities in India, CIS-A2K is
planning to support and organise online Wiki-events (remote participation,
where no physical presence is required), we'll get back to you with further
details.
Thank you for your understanding and co-operation. For any question, please
reply in this thread or email tito+wetogether(a)cis-india.org
Stay safe.
With regards and good wishes,
T
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Some other reading:
A few Wikimedians have started and working on a WikiProject remote event
participation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation You
may have a look. Similarly, a Coronavirus tech handbook is being prepared
(crowdsourced) as well for remote working and events:
https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/remote
Please follow
Indian Government: Ministry of Health of Family Welfare (MOHFW) helpline
and support advice:
http://www.mohfw.gov.in/, MOHFW consolidated travel
guidelines:
http://www.mohfw
.gov.in/ConsolidatedTraveladvisoryUpdated11032020.pdf Mass gathering
advisory:
http://www.mohfw.gov.in/advisoryformassgathering.pdf
Coronavirus safety advice by WHO:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-…
References
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice
[2]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2020-March/014530.ht…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Requests
Thanks
Tito Dutta