Hey Itzik (and everyone),
I have a notion. There's no reason we can't have months, or a full year, of celebrations. But I also think it'd be great to have multiple celebrations around the world on January 15, and I was thinking it might be interesting to have a couple of board members + staff members to go out and be present at some of those. For example, I think Barry is thinking about spending January 15 in Bangalore, with the chapter there.
So I'm curious to know: who is planning celebrations in their country, and might want to have a board member or staff member come and celebrate with them? Or, who might be willing to organize something?
I say this in part because there will likely be a January 15 celebration in San Francisco. But there's no reason it should be the primary event. So if others are planning celebrations, or are willing to plan them, the Wikimedia Foundation would be willing to help -- by providing guest speakers, swag/outreach materials, or whatever else would be useful.
Thanks, Sue
On 29/08/2010, Itzik Edri itzik@infra.co.il wrote:
Hey,
We have more or less 4 months to the "dead-line", big part of this time is going to be spent by most of us to the fundraising.. The amount of ideas, projects and information that been share here - was very little.. We still don't have ideas from chapters or the foundation.. and no information about grants and global plans.
I'm starting to get worried.. 4 months is nothing - to plan, make a connection, build budget, get sponsors and ext'...
The 10th Wikipedia anniversary can be a huge celebration week\month, and can be only one day press release celebration. We have the opportunity to gain more publicity, arrange public events and bring Wikipedia to the front.
let's don't miss it.
If anyone have practical ideas - please share them soon!
Thanks, Itzik.