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From: Blessing Chataira <blessing@itoca.org>
To: 'Lourie Pieterse' <louriepieterse@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 9:55 AM
Subject: RE: [Wikimedia ZA] Heritage Western Cape meeting (18 July)

Hie Lourie

This was such productive meetings you had. I am willing to assist wherever
possible. I am based in Pretoria, so if it is anything in Cape Town can do
what is possible remotely. I really like the suggestion of picture/art
schools doing the first screening as I was thinking how swamped the judges
would be - it also helps give better quality check levels.

Kind Regards
Blessing

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-----Original Message-----
From: wikimediaza-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaza-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Lourie
Pieterse
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 7:44 PM
To: WikimediaZA
Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Heritage Western Cape meeting (18 July)

Hello everyone

As most of you know, I met last week with Heritage Western Cape (HWC)
regarding our partnership in Wiki Loves Monuments. The meeting went
reasonably well, with the core points discussed below.

1) I managed to get hold of the long sought endorsement letter and official
HWC logo. The letter is visible on our website and can be found
here: http://wikilovesmonuments.co.za/wiki/Letters_of_support.
2) HWC decided to provide us with R5000 for use as the competition prize.
They can either wire this money to us, or they could buy the reward
themselves and then pass it on to us, the latter being the least troublesome
for them.
3) They wanted more information regarding the competition launch, to which I
gave them the decided upon date of 1 September. Andrew (CEO of HWC)
mentioned that they would be willing to send someone to the launch to say a
few words. I believe that we should invite a few people from their
department, because of their efforts in helping us.
4) They also started to work on a poster to promote WLM that they will be
sending to 23 museums throughout the Western Cape. This is very good
exposure, and we should make use of it.
5) Each of these museums does have at least one computer with internet
access and HWC are willing to ask the museum staff to help with WLM on
Heritage Day. They are having a staff meeting soon, which means that we
should decide as soon as possible on the exact methodology of that day.
6) It was also advised that we decide on a few core participating museums
(Cape Town, Worcester, George, Mosselbay) that will promote WLM heavily on
Heritage Day. Should we decide on these museums, HWC would assist us in this
process.
7) WHC also informed me that their contacts at the daily newspapers are
looking specifically for stories regarding Heritage Day, and that they will
help us to work with these contacts to get the needed exposure.
8) They also came up with the idea that we should contact local photography
schools to help us with the initial levels of screening the photographs.
That way we will only get the best images to the high-level judges.

On the same day, I also managed to meet with someone from the City of Cape
Town. We previously met with them, and they are still very much interested
in WLM. The other good news is that I managed to convince them to make
available old maps they have in their possession. These maps are very old,
some dating back to 1895! The only agreement is that these maps should be of
such a resolution that it could not be used for commercial printing. These
discussions are still in the initial phases and I agreed to follow this up
with them. In addition to this, they also have small articles already
written about a large amount of heritage sites, and with correct
discussions, they might also release these under a free license to be used
as article texts. Finally, they are potentially interested in sponsoring us
for the competition, which I must also still follow up.

I believe that these meetings went very well and that we have good
governmental support. I suggest that the following points are important and
should be followed up immediately:

1) Decide on what we want to do with the R5000 made available by HWC. The
sooner we decide on this, the sooner they can start working on it.
2) We should decide on the detail of the competition launch, as it is only
40 days away. We should create a guest list and invite the high-ranking
people before their diaries are full.
3) In addition to the above, we should decide on who could speak at this
event and approach them early to ensure their availability.
4) Decide on the methodology of Heritage Day.
5) The documentation on our website should be completed, as we can then
present it to the museum staff. They can then indicate to us how to improve
it and we can beforehand help them with potential questions.
6) We should now already talk to the contacts at the newspapers and invite
them to the competition launch. If we keep them informed, we can enjoy much
more exposure during the competition.
7) The local photography schools should be approach for help with filtering
the images.
8) We should also approach the City of Cape Town again and convince them to
release the maps and the articles they already have. Potentially we can also
get them to sponsor the competition.

As you all can see, there is so much that we still need to do before the
competition! So if there is anywhere where you can help us, please contact
us and do so. If we want to make a success of this we will need the support
of everyone we can get.

Kind regards
Lourie


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