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;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;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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