Congratulations to all the community members in Bangladesh and everyone who is part of
Wikimedia Bangladesh.
It seems like a wonderful event - and a fantastic achievement for the Bangladesh
community. All the very best for all the ambitious plans that must have been discussed at
this conference.
Thanks so much for sharing this, Tanvir.
Warmest Regards,
hisham
On Mar 12, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Tanvir Rahman wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am so pleased to announce that Wikimedia Bangladesh, with the help of Independent
University, Bangladesh, Chittagong, and Bangladesh Open Source Network, organized the
first Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 [1] in Chittagong [2] to promote Bangla Wikipedia
[3] in Bangladesh. This outreach event was held in 2 and 3 of March and was attended by
around 300 participants. It was first big-level program of Wikimedia Bangladesh and it was
outside of the Dhaka (the capital) to focus on country-wide outreach. We called it an
"unconference" to give it a less formal look and to make the appearance more
welcoming.
This two days event was inaugurated by the Chittagong City Mayor and and in the last it
was attended by the Since and Technology minister of Bangladesh Government. It was also
attended by some other popular public figures, writers, and university professors, and
media personalties. During the unconference we had events like workshops, photo
exhibition, cultural program, seminars, article writing contest, etc. We had several teams
from the schools, colleges, and universities in Chittagong as team participants. The
unconference was hosted by Chittagong campus of Independent University, Bangladesh. You
can see the some of the images of the events in the Commons category [4].
Because of the presence of the popular public figures and government officials, the event
got a significant amount of media coverage in national print and electronic media. We also
even had billboards in the city's main crossings to let people know about Bangla
Wikipedia which was the main purpose of this event and current strategic priority of
Wikimedia Bangladesh.
Wikimedia Bangladesh wants to thank everyone who supported us. We want to thank our
sponsors and donors who helped us to arrange this big event. We want thank Wikimedia
Foundation director Sue Gardner for her nice video speech that we screened in the
inaugural ceremony. And of course to our participants, who eventually made this effort a
success. And I apologize to let you guys know about this event in late. We are still
working on putting everything on wiki.
Regards,
Tanvir Rahman
Wikitanvir on Wikimedia
Secretary,
Wikimedia Bangladesh
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bangla_Wikipedia_Unconference_2012
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong
[3]
http://bn.wikipedia.org
[4]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangla_Wikipedia_Unconference_20…
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