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This is a (potentially epic) task capturing the work needed for organizing Research offsite during FY1920. **When ** 2019-10-28 to 2019-11-01 **Where ** The choice of location will depend on the following factors (in no specific order): * Are there opportunities that by traveling to a specific city/country/region we can help the local community, chapter, user group, or affiliates in any way, especially if the ways we can help are aligned with our expertise? * The goals of the offsite. * The length of the trip. * The amount of travel each person will have to do to make it to the location * Cost of traveling to the location Possible locations (the list may expand or shrink as we learn more): * Ghana: Freedom of Panorama * Latin America including Argentina and Uruguay (Visa can be difficult for Argentina.) Copyright conversations with a focus on history. * Estonia and Poland. Value of data-mining and machine learning for community projects. Other EU countries with active Wikimedia Community on the public policy front. * Hungary. Opening (monuments) lists under free license. * India: fly several volunteers from several locations to bring a group of people together to do an ML project together. * Kolkata in support of Bengali community: significant investment in Wikisource and Wikidata, and tools. * East coast of the U.S.: NYC or somewhere else. * San Francisco: with the added advantage that the team can spend some days in the office and meet colleagues from other teams. * Berlin: to spend some time with Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikidata team. **Goals** To be developed with the team. **Agenda and content ** To be developed with the team once the goals are finalized. Isaac signed up for gathering input from the team. Leila and Isaac will work together to finalize the offsite plans after input is gathered (with team input at at least one more stage after the initial draft.)

This is a (potentially epic) task capturing the work needed for organizing Research offsite during FY1920. **When ** 2019-10-28 to 2019-10-30 **Where ** Berlin **Goals** To be developed with the team. **Agenda and content ** To be developed with the team once the goals are finalized. Isaac has shared a doc for the team to work on this. Leila and Isaac will work together to finalize the offsite plans after input is gathered (with team input at at least one more stage after the initial draft.)

This is a (potentially epic) task capturing the work needed for organizing Research offsite during FY1920. **When ** 2019-10-28 to 2019-11-010-30 **Where ** The choice of location will depend on the following factors (in no specific order): * Are there opportunities that by traveling to a specific city/country/region we can help the local community, chapter, user group, or affiliates in any way, especially if the ways we can help are aligned with our expertise? * The goals of the offsite. * The length of the trip. * The amount of travel each person will have to do to make it to the location * Cost of traveling to the location Possible locations (the list may expand or shrink as we learn more): * Ghana: Freedom of Panorama * Latin America including Argentina and Uruguay (Visa can be difficult for Argentina.) Copyright conversations with a focus on history. * Estonia and Poland. Value of data-mining and machine learning for community projects. Other EU countries with active Wikimedia Community on the public policy front. * Hungary. Opening (monuments) lists under free license. * India: fly several volunteers from several locations to bring a group of people together to do an ML project together. * Kolkata in support of Bengali community: significant investment in Wikisource and Wikidata, and tools. * East coast of the U.S.: NYC or somewhere else. * San Francisco: with the added advantage that the team can spend some days in the office and meet colleagues from other teams. * Berlin: to spend some time with Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikidata team.Berlin **Goals** To be developed with the team. **Agenda and content ** To be developed with the team once the goals are finalized. Isaac signed uphas shared a doc for gathering input from the teamthe team to work on this. Leila and Isaac will work together to finalize the offsite plans after input is gathered (with team input at at least one more stage after the initial draft.)