On 02-Oct-2019, at 10:52 AM, Japleen Pasricha <japleenpasricha@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Pavan,Thank you for taking this initiative! I'm excited to see this and this would be my first conference! I'd be happy to assist remotely whatever is possible and participate in the conference in Hyderabad. Let me know :)Best,JapleenOn Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 10:45, Abhinav srivastava <abhinav619@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@gmail.com> wrote:Hi PavanMe 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.RegardsManavOn Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 09:36 pavan santhosh, <pavansanthosh.s@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
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