________________________________ From: Blessing Chataira <blessing(a)itoca.org> To: 'Lourie Pieterse' <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com>om>; 'WikimediaZA' <wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: 'Isla Haddow-Flood' <islahf(a)africacentre.net> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 12:29 PM Subject: RE: [Wikimedia ZA] Wiki Loves Monuments proposal Hie Lourie   This looks fine and I hope the board gives feedback soon.   I am available in Gauteng for meetings and if Isla is willing to meet first then I can also go with her to meet the phone companies.   Kind Regards Blessing   Programme Officer ITOCA | Information Training & Outreach Centre for Africa Block 12, Lords Office Estate, 276 West Avenue P.O Box 11632, Die Hoewes, 0163, Centurion South Africa Tel: +27 12 6634062 Fax: +27 12 6634052 Skype: chataira Twitter: blessinfo Email:blessing@itoca.org Web: www.itoca.org   From:wikimediaza-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaza-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Lourie Pieterse Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 9:15 PM To: WikimediaZA Cc: Isla Haddow-Flood Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wiki Loves Monuments proposal   Hello everyone   Unfortunately it took us much longer to get back to you than expected. We (or at least me) didn't know that Isla was on holiday, so there was some sort of confusion along the away. Maarten and me wrote a little report on our meeting with the government heritage officials last week, which can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/WLMMeeting1. We essentially just want to know if the WMZA board approve of this idea and whether we can go forward with discussions regarding it with government. We would appreciate any comments as soon as possible, because we need to arrange the next meetings and so forth.   As mentioned in the report; we have their full support and they committed to a formal partnership with Wikimedia ZA should this proposal get approved by the board. If there is any further questions, feel free to ask. Anyone else is also more than welcome to comment regarding this idea of ours. Thanks.   Kind regards Lourie