Great to hear! I remember that you shared with us 'it might take a while'
but I never took it so excessively! Thanks for sticking through, and all
the best with the earned status. I hope it will help you a lot in your
activities.
Lodewijk
2014-06-10 19:33 GMT+02:00 Vishnu <visdaviva(a)gmail.com>om>:
Excellent news, Tonmoy! Congratulations!!
Best,
Vishnu
On Tuesday 10 June 2014 10:58 PM, Tonmoy Khan wrote:
Dear All,
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Wikimedia Bangladesh (WMBD)
has
successfully completed its local registration in Bangladesh. Our
application for registration was approved by the Registrar of Joint Stock
Companies & Firms - Bangladesh on 9th June, 2014 and I have collected the
certificate of registration today (10th June, 2014).
Wikimedia Bangladesh has been registered under the Societies Registration
Act of Bangladesh & our official name is Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation.
The registration process was a very long and demanding one, but our
perseverance and determination finally prevailed. It has become very
difficult to get registration of a society/foundation in Bangladesh as the
incumbents have to have security clearance from the National Security
Intelligence (NSI) of Bangladesh, which is very difficult to get if not
impossible. In the course of dealing with the registration process of
WMBD,
I learned that less than 5 applications for registration as societies get
approved out of every 100. We submitted our application in May 2012 and it
took us a little over two years to get the security clearance from NSI &
complete all the bureaucratic process!
It gives us a great sense of achievement that we could uphold the
Wikimedia
movement volunteerism spirit with passion, integrity and professionalism
despite being a small volunteer community. The pending registration issue
could not hold us from doing outreach activities locally & taking in the
greater Wikimedia Movement. We organized some excellent programs,
workshops
& meet-ups with our limited resources during this time period. This effort
successfully brought in good number of new contributors to Bengali
Wikipedia & increased the article count. Volunteers from WMBD/Bangladesh
are also actively participating in the international Wikimedia movement by
taking part in discussions, conferences & as committee members in
different
Wikimedia committees.
We, as a chapter, want to make small but steady steps towards sustainable
progress in fostering the Wikimedia movement in Bangladesh so that we can
make the sum of all human knowledge accessible to the people of this
region.
Cheers
Ali Haidar Khan (tOnmOy)
Treasurer
Wikimedia Bangladesh
"ভাবুনতো এমন এক পৃথিবীর কথা, যেখানে প্রতিটি মানুষ সমস্ত জ্ঞান বাধাহীন ভাবে
আদান প্রদান করতে পারবে। এটাই আমাদের অঙ্গীকার।"
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