<div><div dir="auto">Grattis! I’m in Sweden now! If any of you want help with planning, do let me know while I’m around attending school in Stockholm. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Naureen </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Sailesh Patnaik <<a href="mailto:sailesh.patnaik007@gmail.com">sailesh.patnaik007@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Congratulations to all Wikimedians from Sweden and Wikimedia Sverige :) </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 at 7:29 AM, Ellie Young <<a href="mailto:eyoung@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">eyoung@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="m_2611430123874417540m_7724228453163908750gmail-docs-internal-guid-997b44e6-6dfa-ae9f-4c9c-c79f0ddc780e"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All,</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, I am pleased to announce that we have decided to have Wikimania located in Sweden in 2019. The </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2019_bids/Sweden" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">proposal</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> from the Wikimedia Sweden chapter was accepted. The committee appreciates and values the long standing interest of Wikimania Sweden to host an event, and we believe that hosting Wikimania will be an opportunity to boost Wikimedia projects there with a specific focus on public art, a field in which the Swedish Sverige team has been particularly active. The exact location of the conference will be confirmed at a later date.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Wikimania Committee reviewed and discussed </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2019" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">four very strong proposals</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to host Wikimania in 2019. We would also like to thank the proposers from Sweden, Armenia, Perth, and Prague for all their efforts in putting together materials for our consideration and their time spent discussing the possibilities. It is very encouraging to have so much interest from our community from individuals who wish to lead and contribute to Wikimania.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please join us in congratulating the Wikimedia </span><a href="https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wikimedia Sverige!</span></a></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely,</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ellie Young</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WMF Events Manager</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee and Wikimedia Foundation</span></p></b><br class="m_2611430123874417540m_7724228453163908750gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div></div>
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