Hi Douglas, I am glad to hear there is a group working on the ground and I will be attending the conference.
I will be presenting on "Cross collaboration across open movements in Africa" using Wikipedia and Open Street Maps as a case study, talking especially on how both communities can benefit and make each others work relevant. I will showcase how Wikipedia makes use of geodata (coordinates) in articles of places and suggest new ways we can work together. Cheers, On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Isla Haddow Flood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Douglas > > Thanks for letting us all know. This sounds very exciting!! > > Responding to what Asaf said … perhaps an explanation is required of what > he meant. In the Wikimedia world you have to be endorsed by the AffCom > committee (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee) to > call yourself a Usergroup - the Cameroon group has just completed the > process. > > When you are a group of enthusiastic volunteers working towards this > recognition, groups like yours call themselves Planning Wikimedia Uganda > Usergroup, or similar. This is the norm. So I guess that is why he is > surprised at the words you used. > > Asaf, you can see the work that the Uganda Volunteer group has done on > Wiki Loves Africa over the last 3 years if you look here: https://commons. > wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa - > The team that typically takes part can be seen here: https://commons. > wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Local_events#Uganda > > Douglas can point you to the other outreach work they have done. > > warmest > Isla > > > On 07 Jul 2017, at 11:56 PM, Douglas Ssebaggala <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Wikimedians, > > Especially from Africa, apologies that this has come in, really really > late, nevertheless, thought the list can know about the above OpenStreetMap > Conference happening in the next few hours in Kampala. Details at > > http://sotmafrica.org > > It's a pity that we do not have a session about Wikipedia/Wikimedia > Projects, however, Wikimedia Usergroup members in Uganda and other African > countries are strongly involved in the organisation of the above > conference, and this is just a start, we highly hope to have more > involvement of Wikimedia in the future events. > > Thanks. > > > *Ssebaggala Douglas* > *Executive Director (MapUganda)* > *OpenStreetMap Uganda * > > *Building a network of Mappers in Uganda, creating capacity, Innovation > and opendata.* > *Skype: douglo.m | Twitter: @mapuganda > <http://www.twitter.com/mapuganda> @douglaseru > <https://twitter.com/douglaseru> | Mob: +256 772 422524 > <+256%20772%20422524>* > > *Hive Colab, 4th Floor Kanjokya House, Plot 90, Kanjokya Street, Kampala - > Uganda* > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > > *Isla Haddow-Flood* > Co-project Manager > Username: Islahaddow > > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > -- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 | +447440959477* *Skype:Flixtey*
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