Hello Ankry,
Thanks for initiating this. With many issues around wikisource and
much chance of learning from each other community it is right time we
have a separate conference dedicated for wikisource.
Please count me in for any help regarding organising the conference.
Regards,
J. Balaji.
User:Balajijagadesh
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 1:24 AM Mardetanha
<mardetanha.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am also happy to hear such good news. and Thanks
for WMPL for
support and help.
Mardetanha
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:28 PM Garád, Claudia
<claudia.garad(a)wikimedia.at> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>this is great news - I'm really excited by the prospect of a
>Wikisource Conference in Warsaw!
>
>WMAT has already had a long call with Nathalia to share our
>experiences from organising the 2015 edition and of course we are
>here to support the next conference as best as we can!
>
>Cheers
>
>Claudia
>
>
>
>Am 17.12.2019 um 05:43 schrieb Bodhisattwa Mandal:
>>Hi Ankry,
>>
>>Thanks for taking up the initiative to organise the much needed
>>conference. Wikisource is now a much more visible project in India
>>compared to 2015, when we participated in the last conference.
>>It's gaining importance within the Indian academic and librarian
>>circles. We already have some partnerships in different parts of
>>India and hopefully there will be a major partnership news coming
>>soon regarding Wikisource .
>>
>>Anyway, in this regard, I personally feel 2021 is bit far away. If
>>this is not much a problem for WMPL or the user group, we can go
>>for Autumn 2020 as it would be great for Indian communities to
>>interact with the larger community and gain more knowledge at this
>>vital time of growth. Please be assured, that any help needed from
>>our side as Indian Wikisource communities and affiliates
>>supporting Wikisource projects will be provided whenever needed.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Bodhisattwa
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 17 Dec 2019, 04:51 Ankry, <ankry.wiki(a)onet.pl> wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>As some of you already noticed, we were talking on Saturday not
>>>only about Wikimedia Summit, but also about plans concerning
>>>Wikisource Conference sequel. The first Wikisource Conference
>>>took place in Vienna in 2015. Maybe, five years later, it is good
>>>time to organize the next event?
>>>
>>>The only way for this to happen is to receive a grant from WMF.
>>>Recently, I have got a confirmation from my chapter that
>>>Wikimedia Polska is willing to help us to apply for the grant and
>>>to organize Wikimedia Conference in Warsaw as a fiscal sponsor
>>><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Fiscal_sponsorships>.
>>>(AFAIK this is the same procedure that was applied to the
>>>conference in Vienna).
>>>
>>>What they need from us? We need:
>>>
>>>to organize various commitees (Organizing Commitee, Program
>>>Commitee, Grant Comission, etc); the discussion on Saturday
>>>showed that there are people among us who want help in theese. Of
>>>course the more people, the betterto decide when we want the
>>>Conference. There are two possible dates: Autumn 2020 (likely
>>>September) and Spring 2021 (likely May); we need to decide which
>>>one is preferred and the decision is a bit urgent as for the near
>>>term the deadline for grant application is 10 February (however
>>>it is a realistic plan). At the moment this question is crucial
>>>to estimate how many people wish to participate in the Conference
>>>The person supporting us from WMPL is Natalia.
>>>
>>>We have prepared a short survey that should help us to find
>>>response to the above questions. The survey is here:
>>>
>>>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-0WGvjrt1UcHhAl-CMtNps85m28R22a6CFkai_cH86k44rw/viewform
>>>
>>>Please, fill it if you are interested in participating the
>>>Conference.
>>>
>>>Best,
>>> Ankry
>>>
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