ESEAP Conference 2024/Report/*Youngjin

Youngjin Ko, Project Manager at Wikimedia Korea particiated ESEAP conference 2024 representing Wikimedia Korea as project Manager, He also had a role of Core Team meaning, supporting various fields of needed during conference.

Presentations

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Youngjin participated two presentations as speaker or panellist.

Learnings

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  • Organizing the event - As COT member of this conference, I contributed various aspects during this conference, and got brief experiences of what to expect during conference. Hope this experiences can be used for future regional conferences and/or possible events hosted by us.
  • Freedom of Panorama (FOP) - Each country has its own issues with panoramic freedom. There are many efforts in this region to get the rights related to it.
  • Japanese community - Survey shows how contributors are being distributed, initiatives by 70 year old Liberian, how Eugene can archived the work in the his university.
  • Mainland China - There are significant amount of contributors in that region - but HOW we reaching them as Hub or WMF?

Alongside three highlights, Youngjin was able to see unique examples of activity in different countries.

Participation

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  • ESEAP Hub discussion
  • Interacting with Foundation. - Expressing local concerns with IP Masking, reviewing some initiatives and grant process.
  • As member of Organizing team, I assisted in various levels during conference. This includes: Becoming a host for major sessions (such as Hubs), provide logistics support

Plans after the conference

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(from what was learned or contributed in the conference)

  • Planning East Asia sub-regional collaboration with Wikimedia Taiwan and Japanese user group.
  • Promoting regional-collaboration within my community.
  • Try to look over the strategies related to concerns/suggestions raised for Korean community, implementing some useful initiatives from other countries.
  • Due to program conflicts and duties had during conference, I couldn't join the all sessions that I interested during conference such as Asia month. Might want to review those presentations once they are uploaded.