That is great Tanvir :) Good going! Regards Noopur On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Tanvir Rahman <wikitan...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > I am so pleased to announce that Wikimedia Bangladesh, with the help of > Independent University, Bangladesh, Chittagong, and Bangladesh Open Source > Network, organized the first Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 [1] in > Chittagong [2] to promote Bangla Wikipedia [3] in Bangladesh. This outreach > event was held in 2 and 3 of March and was attended by around 300 > participants. It was first big-level program of Wikimedia Bangladesh and it > was outside of the Dhaka (the capital) to focus on country-wide outreach. > We called it an "unconference" to give it a less formal look and to make > the appearance more welcoming. > > This two days event was inaugurated by the Chittagong City Mayor and and in > the last it was attended by the Since and Technology minister of Bangladesh > Government. It was also attended by some other popular public figures, > writers, and university professors, and media personalties. During the > unconference we had events like workshops, photo exhibition, cultural > program, seminars, article writing contest, etc. We had several teams from > the schools, colleges, and universities in Chittagong as team participants. > The unconference was hosted by Chittagong campus of Independent University, > Bangladesh. You can see the some of the images of the events in the Commons > category [4]. > > Because of the presence of the popular public figures and government > officials, the event got a significant amount of media coverage in national > print and electronic media. We also even had billboards in the city's main > crossings to let people know about Bangla Wikipedia which was the main > purpose of this event and current strategic priority of Wikimedia > Bangladesh. > > Wikimedia Bangladesh wants to thank everyone who supported us. We want to > thank our sponsors and donors who helped us to arrange this big event. We > want thank Wikimedia Foundation director Sue Gardner for her nice video > speech that we screened in the inaugural ceremony. And of course to our > participants, who eventually made this effort a success. And I apologize to > let you guys know about this event in late. We are still working on putting > everything on wiki. > > Regards, > Tanvir Rahman > Wikitanvir on Wikimedia > Secretary, > Wikimedia Bangladesh > > [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bangla_Wikipedia_Unconference_2012 > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong > [3] http://bn.wikipedia.org > [4] > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangla_Wikipedia_Unconference_2012 > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
