Thanks for sharing this wonderful news, and congratulation to The Wikimedians in Thailand user group. Mardetanha
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 3:42 PM Iolanda Pensa <[email protected]> wrote: > Wikimedians! > > The Wikimania Steering Committee is delighted to announce our > recommendation for Wikimania 2020 to take place in Bangkok, Thailand, as a > collaboration among chapters in the region. This is a new model we are > exploring with a team of chapters and user groups from the East Southeast > Asia and Pacific (ESEAP) region. We are looking forward to assist with > organising one of the events we use as a platform to bring the sum of all > notable and verifiable knowledge to the world and – most importantly – > discuss, develop and dedicate ourselves to all things Wikimedia. > > The Wikimedians in Thailand user group has been around since 2008 and > recently applied for chapter status. In addition to this, ESEAP recently > held a regional conference where they successfully emerged as a working > cooperative. We are grateful for the continued work these combined teams > are putting in, making this a genuine coalition in the ESEAP region. > > We would like to thank the Wikimedians from Perth, Bali and Armenia, who > offered to host Wikimania. Organising Wikimania is hard work, and for this > we are grateful and appreciate anyone willing to do so. As always, we feel > privileged being part of a movement where people competently step up to > make this a successful convening. We believe that bringing together an > ESEAP coalition to host the event will provide representation the region > deserves. We believe they will do a great job. > > The Wikimania decision process has been changing for some time and we will > be taking steps towards more transparent and sustainable processes. Bangkok > was not one of the original proposals received, but the committee felt this > location represented an excellent opportunity to make Wikimania a regional > and collaborative effort. The city was deemed a good location due to a > number of factors: visa-friendly, travel-wise accessible, reasonably priced > lodgings, plenty of universities and GLAM institutions are some of the > characteristics that make this city a strategic location to welcome a large > cohort and continue to expand our movement. > > We are also happy that Joël Letang (event team manager at Wikimedia > Foundation) and Isabel Cueva (events program manager at Wikimedia > Foundation) will contribute to the organisation of the event. You can meet > Joël and Isabel this August in Stockholm at Wikimania 2019. > > We would like to congratulate and thank the ESEAP coalition team for the > time and effort dedicated in making Wikimania 2020 a success! > > Iolanda Pensa / iopensa on behalf of the Wikimania Committee and the event > team at Wikimedia Foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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