On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 10:45, Abhinav srivastava
<abhinav619(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Pawan,
Thanks for leading this up.
I would suggest that we float on idea for a SAARC conference, similar to North America
conference etc.
Also, with all due respect I have {{opposed}} the plan only to say we should have a
bidding system. There are many more communities who may wish to host a conference and
bidding may improve efficiency and be a basis for learnings.
As stated by you, I have posted the comment on Meta and we may continue the discussion
there as well. For visibility I have just re-shared my comment here.
<Begin Message>
The idea of bidding promotes competitive efficiency.I would suggest that initailly
conference idea should proceed with a bidding system such that best community leads the
initiave and sets up a benchmark. Subsequently, any idea of non-bidding should be
revisited. Personally having organised two Hindi Wiki conferences and third in line, there
happens to be a large enthusiam amongst the communities to host a National Conference.
There are many more communities such as Karavali who had previously shared their intent
for Wikimania etc. I believe any arbit decision such only in the name to save time should
not be abided. To have the process inclusive, mostly importantly to have puralism within
different Indian communities and good community health, bidding framework which promotes
utmost documentation would be beneficial.
<End Message>
Abhinav
On Wednesday, 2 October 2019, Dr. Manavpreet Kaur <dr.manavpreetkaur(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Pavan
Me and many more wikimedians have been waiting for so long to start discussion about next
WCI. I am really excited to see this email. I totally support the idea and would love to
assist you in any way I can.
All the best. Let's do it.
Regards
Manav
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 09:36 pavan santhosh, <pavansanthosh.s(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Fellow Wikimedians, Happy Gandhi Jayanti!
>
> Hope all of you are doing well. I am writing this email to start an initial
conversation to host WikiConference India 2020 in Hyderabad.
>
> Many of us know that we had two national conferences in India till date - the first
one in 2011 in Mumbai, and the second one in 2016 in Chandigarh. Both the conferences had
been effective in bringing the diverse and massive Indian community together for a
collective effort. The cross-community connections made during these conferences led many
future collaborations across the country.
>
> I was one of the participants in 2016, and as I clearly remember, during the closing
note, it was stressed upon that WCI should ideally happy annually, at least bi-annually,
and we shouldn’t be waiting years all together for the next conference. But it has been
more than three years since the last conference, and we are yet to have one. With this as
a background, we have been discussing this for quite some time, and we decided recently to
take the baton forward and host the WCI in Hyderabad in 2020. We are willing to invest the
required time and energy to make this happen. Also we have had an initial conversation
about this on Telugu Wikipedia Village Pump, and the local community is in support of
this. The discussion can be seen here[1]
>
> In 2018, the Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation published Global
Event Strategy[2] which stressed on more and regular regional conferences. Such
conferences are being organized in other parts of the world such as WikiIndaba, CEE
Meeting, North America, Iberocoop, Francophone convention, Wikiarabia, ESEAP etc. Even
next year’s Wikimania is being organized by a group of affiliates and that journey started
with them organizing ESEAP conference in 2018.
>
> This conference can and will bring our energies, ideas, learnings, and hopes
together. It will help us in our journey towards better collaborations, diverse efforts
and reinforce our identity as the Indian Wikimedia community. This conference will enable
us to have better knowledge about current capacities, the gaps and also to build
leadership. Exploring opportunities, bringing out leadership, empowering communities,
providing a strategic understanding are some of which this conference can bring out. Apart
from all these, providing a national-level platform for Indian Wikimedians to connect,
re-connect, and establish their collaboration itself can be a very important purpose on
it’s own.
>
> I hope we, the Indian Wikimedia Community members, come together in our various
capacities and make this a reality by 2020. I believe we all will take learnings from
earlier attempts and improve processes & use best practices in conducting this
conference purposefully and fruitfully.
>
> Our entire thought has been put into this Meta-Wiki page[3], which has a more
detailed explanation of what is what, and why. Since this tends to large and an important
discussion, please keep all the conversations to talk page of above link[4]. We can’t
comfortably converse about multiple issues on one email thread (unlike sections on a
page), and multiply emails can be annoying by spamming inboxes and tough to keep a track.
So we would kindly urge all the conversations to be kept on the above-mentioned talk
page.
>
> Thanks & regards,
> Pavan Santhosh and Krishna Chaitanya
>
>
> Links:
>
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:రచ్చబండ#2020_వికీమీడియా_జాతీయ_సమావ…
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Reading_material#…
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversa…
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_con…
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