[Wikimediaindia-l] Cancellation of WikiCite Satellite New Delhi

[Hardarshan Benipal]

Dear Wikimedians,

Thank you for your patience. With careful consideration of the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic , we have
made a decision to cancel the physical WikiCite Satellite New Delhi. We are
in contact with the Wikimedia Foundation, they support this decision and
are ready and flexible to support any follow-up actions. We will shift the
format of the conference to online discussions and presentations and will
be postponing this virtual event to the next month. The format and the
dates of this virtual event would be determined by the Program Committee in
collaboration with presenters.

We are disappointed that we won’t be able to collaborate in person but the
safety of the conference participants is our highest priority and we look
forward to engaging with you in our virtual program. We will be in touch
soon with further plans and next steps for participating.

Thank you for your understanding. Please direct any questions to
i...@openheritagefoundation.org.

On behalf of Open Heritage Foundation

Kind regards,

Hardarshan

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice

[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite_Satellite_Event_India_2020

[3] http://openheritagefoundation.org/
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[Wikimediaindia-l] COVID-19 and West Bengal Wikimedians UG offline activites

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

Hello all,

This is for your information, that West Bengal Wikimedians User Group will
not be organizing and/or supporting any offline Wikimedia activities and
projects till 15th September, 2020, (or until further notice) due to the
recent COVID-19 pandemic. This decision from the side of the user group was
taken as the user group primarily runs on WMF funds through rapid grants as
of now and WMF has decided
 to
not provide grants for any offline events until the said date. This means,
apart from our regular plans for meetups and workshops, we are also
suspending our Wiki Exploration, Documenting City Heritage and upcoming
GLAM plans and activities. We have informed our community leads who were
organizing and/or planning such events and they have all welcomed the
decision.

We will however organize and support online activities, as usual.
Currently, we have asked our community members to come up with their
proposals, which we can support in coming days. Requests can be done here
.

We thank WMF for taking the tough but necessary decision. Needless to say,
the decision has affected all our future plans, like many other affiliates,
but considering the safety and health of our extremely valuable volunteer
contributors, we heartily welcome this decision and will fully abide by it.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
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