Hi Katherine, We really appreciate your response and I am sure the community is excited to hear a formal response at Wikimania.
I am also glad to hear that it has inspired others! Thanks, On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear fellow Wikimedians, > > It has been a remarkable six months since WikiIndaba, and three months > since the Wikimedia Conference. I am so excited by what the African > community has accomplished during this period, and what we have yet to > achieve! > > I am so grateful for the L2K and how it has inspired the movement and > Foundation. We have referred back to it on so many occasions through the > global strategy process. And of course, it inspired the Latin American > community with their own post-Iberoconf letter, the Carta de Buenos Aires > [1]. > > In order to properly recognize the L2K, and the importance of the African > community, I would like to acknowledge both it and the Carta with a formal > response while we are at Wikimania. The response will be timed to accompany > the presentation that I intend to give along with Christophe Henner, our > Wikimedia Foundation Board Chair. > > In the meantime, I know that you have been in close coordination with Jack > and other Foundation colleagues through the office hours and other > collaborations. Internally within the Foundation, the themes of the L2K > have been present in our conversations around strategy, program, and > community planning. > > I am so grateful for your voice, and the representation of Africa in the > community, and your continued work on behalf of our movement. > > Yours, > Katherine > > [1] Original in Spanish: https://meta.wikimedi > a.org/wiki/Iberocoop/Carta_de_Buenos_Aires; English version: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop/Buenos_Aires_Letter > > -- > Katherine Maher > > Wikimedia Foundation > 149 New Montgomery Street > San Francisco, CA 94105 > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 <+1%20415-839-6885> > +1 (415) 712 4873 <+1%20415-712-4873> > [email protected] > https://annual.wikimedia.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wiki Indaba 17 Participants" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to wiki-indaba-17-participants@ > googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/wiki-indaba-17-participants/CACy-dAo7VwicOsBYgNp% > 2B6kZaU8VxhGE3HSTRyT8hKaSQ7qanzg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wiki-indaba-17-participants/CACy-dAo7VwicOsBYgNp%2B6kZaU8VxhGE3HSTRyT8hKaSQ7qanzg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 | +447440959477* *Skype:Flixtey*
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