My fellow Wikimericans,
I thought this might be interesting, it's a summit of Ibero-American Wikimedia chapters and chapters-to-be, and possible inspiration for us USA-Americans...
A point to consider in advance of the 1st Annual Great American Wiknic :)
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patricio Lorente patricio.lorente@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:49 PM Subject: [Internal-l] Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" internal-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Dear friends:
From Friday 24 to Sunday 26 Wikimedia Argentina will be hosting the
first Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit in Buenos Aires. This Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit will gather representatives from Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Chile, Wikimedia España and Wikimedia Portugal, as well as working groups from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela that are currently working towards the establishment of local chapters in their countries.
We wanted the event to focus especially on these groups, so that already established chapters can help developing the Wikimedia movement in our region by means of sharing experiences and know-how, as well as working on somme common, cross-frontier projects.
Unlike most international events in the Wikimedia scene, the Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit will have only Spanish and Portuguese as its working languages. We believe it's better to use our native languages to discuss the common challenges and shared grounds our region has. We believe regional efforts such as this help making multilingualism real.
Ibero-America shares not only a land mass; more important, the reasons behind Ibero-American cooperation have to do with a shared history, a common culture and two sister languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, which are mutually intelligible to a very high degree.
The final schedule can be seen at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Encuentro_Wikimedia_Iberoamericano_2011/Progr...; a rough English translation of the proposed agenda that led to it can be seen here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ibero-American_Wikimedia_Summit_2011/Agenda/e...
The conference will span for three days, from Friday 24 to Sunday 26. The first day we'll be discussing general topics having to do with forming a working group and running a chapter. On Friday we'll dedicate one our and a half to a panel/workshop on educational outreach (Wikipedia en el aula) with Lila Pagola, a professor from the National University of Villa María who was a pioneer in incorporating Wikimedia projects in her classes, and Ángeles Soletic, from the Innovation in Education and Tecnology Centre of the University in Buenos Aires. During the afternoon, we'll be discussing about the Foundation's Five-Year Plan and the way in which it relates with our region, emphasizing about the "Global South" concept. We expect to produce some documents to discuss with all of the community afterwards.
Waiting to see some of you here this week, un abrazo,
Patricio
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