Hi Dror, thanks a lot for the contact-making and coordination.
Just in case, here is the link to the meeting plans: http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_South_Meeting /Manuel On 30.06.2011 02:59, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello, > > I asked two people from the Ben Gurion University's Africa Center to > attend Wikimania for as much as they can, in order to talk with > developers and other people involved in offline projects and > "devnations" initiatives. These two students were part of the Israeli > mission to > Santchou, Cameroon, earlier this year, and they had a lot of success > with installing offline versions of the French Wikipedia there. I wrote > about it in Hebrew on wm-il's blog, and Amir sent an English > self-translation to the Foundation's blog, I hope it would be published > soon. > > Anyway, one of these students is engaged in other volunteering projects > throughout the summer, but this time in Israel, so he said that if he > would be in the vicinity of Haifa on 2-3 August he will come to talk > with anyone who would like to hear about his experience. The other student > agreed to come on Friday to talk about their success story during the > main event. She was unsure whether she could come on 2-3 August too > due to her working schedule (it ain't cheap being a student in this > country...) > > Anyway, I suggest anyone involved in the "devnations" initiatives be in > or around the hall, where the talk about Africa is held, so we could gather > with her after the talk and ask some useful questions. > > Dror K > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
