[Wikimedia-l] Iberoconf 2012

[Samuel Klein]

I found this one of the more useful and joyful wikimedia gatherings I
have been to.  Thank you to the organizers and participants!

@Osmar: I have a stack of notes to refactor and post once I get home
later this week...

Regards from Santiago,
SJ

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Alhen <alhen.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> We, at the Bolivian working group, are totally thrilled with the
> experience. The Chilean team worked out a flawless conference. I wonder if
> they will get bolder and go for a Wikimania!!
>
> We shared a lot of differente sesions and get different points of views
> that really help us grow as an institution to get the best from us for the
> movement.
>
> Thank you Wikimedia Chile, Osmar and the whole team, a superb team, thank
> you to sj, notafish, and Matthew Roth who took the time to see what
> iberoconf was about, and lastly, thanks to the fundation that supported
> this conference.
>
> Alhen
>
> @alhen_
> alhen at wikipedia, wikihow, wikispaces, and most places.
> Promotor de Wikimedia Bolivia
> 00-591-79592235
>
>
>
>
> 2012/6/5 Osmar Valdebenito <osmar at wikimediachile.cl>
>
>> (sorry for cross-posting)
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> In the past few days, representatives of different Wikimedia chapters and
>> working groups met in Santiago de Chile for the Second Ibero-American
>> Wikimedia Summit (also known as Iberoconf). This event took place between
>> June 1st and 3rd at the DUOC UC Institute – Campus Alonso Ovalle, with two
>> representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Italy,
>> Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela, and for the first time,
>> guests from Panama and Peru.
>>
>>
>>
>> The event was an incredible opportunity for the different groups to share
>> their experiences from a local and regional perspective and articulate a
>> common framework for future projects in Ibero America. The use of the
>> native language of all the participants instead of a foreign language as it
>> happens in most of Wikimedia events was a
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is a summary of the main topics of the summit:
>>
>>
>>   - Recommendations for the creation and development of Wikimedia chapters.
>>   - Experience of Brazilian and Mexican wikipedians at universities.
>>   - Discussion on development of projects in indigenous languages.
>>   - Best practices for grant making , accountability and GLAM projects.
>>   - Workshop of external communication and social media.
>>   - Workshop of “Wiki Loves Monument”
>>
>> In the following days, we expect to release an extended summary of the
>> event in Meta, and records of the sessions and photos.  Also, every chapter
>> and working group will upload the slides of their “State of the Chapter”;
>> some of them are already available at
>>
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Presentaciones_en_el_Encuentro_Wikimedia_Iberoamericano_2012
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to thank to the Wikimedia Foundation for funding this project
>> and their representative at the meeting (Samuel Klein as part of the Board
>> and Matthew Roth as part of the Staff) because their valuable and really
>> helpful participation at the sessions.  The same to Délphine Menard, who
>> came as a guest in representation of Wikimedia Deutschland. Thanks also for
>> all the participants, -some of them even flew for more than 24 hours, and
>> for those that voted our bid past March.
>>
>>
>>
>> But, more important, I want to thank to all the members of Wikimedia Chile
>> that helped to organize this event. We bid in February mainly as a joke and
>> now we are finally resting after organizing such a big event. It was a
>> great opportunity to bring closer our members and learn about event
>> organization. To Juan David, Lily, Daniel, Dennis, Eduardo, Sarah, Rocío
>> and Marco, thank you!
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m really happy with this Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit, which is
>> becoming one of our traditions as a movement and as an example for regional
>> cooperation activities. We expect anxiously next summit in 2013 and, as a
>> general recommendation, I public encourage our fellow chapters to start
>> ambitious projects like this one.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Osmar Valdebenito Gaete
>>
>> Presidente de Wikimedia Chile
>>
>> http://www.wikimediachile.cl
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